Kalidas Jayaram

Kalidas Jayaram
Other names	Kannan, Kali
Alma mater	Loyola College, Chennai
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	2000–2003, 2016-present
Parent(s)	Jayaram (Father) Parvathy (Mother)
Relatives	Malavika Jayaram (sister)

Kalidas Jayaram is an Indian film actor who appears in Malayalam and Tamil films.

The son of film actors Jayaram and Parvathy, Kalidas made his debut with the Malayalam film Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal (2000) at the age of 7. Later he starred in the film Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum (2003) which won him the National Award for Best Child Artist. Kalidas made his debut as a lead actor with the Tamil film Meen Kuzhambum Mann Paanaiyum (2016) directed by Amudeshwar which was released in November 2016. Ebrid Shine directorial "Poomaram" (2017) is his first Malayalam movie as a hero.

Kalidas was born on 16 December 1993 to actors Jayaram and Parvathy. He has a younger sister Malavika Jayaram. He had his primary education until tenth grade at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai and his plus-two at Choice School, Cochin, Kerala. He received his bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai.

At the age of 7, he made his debut in Sathyan Anthikkad's "Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal" (2000) which won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Malayalam. He received the National Award for Best Child Artist for his second film "Ente Veedu Appuvinteyum" (2003) directed by Siby Malayil. In the year 2014, he performed impressions of Surya, Ajith and Vijay at the 8th Vijay Awards. Kalidas played the lead in Balaji Tharaneetharan's second directorial ventureOru Pakka Kathai. Begun in 2014, the film is slated for a 2016 release. His second tamil film called Meen Kuzhambum Mann Paanaiyum has been hit on the screens recently. Currently, he has been working on his first Malayalam movie as a hero.