Background
Jagathy N. Kochukrishnan Achary was born in 1924 at Krishnavilasam in Jagathy, a small hamlet in Trivandrum, Kerala, (he took the name of the locality as part of his nom de plume) to Ananthapadmanabhan Achary and Ponnammal.
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Jagathy Achary
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Career
He was the father of popular Malayalam film actor Jagathy Sreekumar. He had his education in Jagathy and Thiruvananthapuram. After obtaining a Bachelor degree, he continued his education and got his graduate degree in Law.
He died of old age diseases in 1997 at his Thiruvananthapuram residence.
A road in Cotton Hill, Vazhuthacaud, Thiruvananthapuram is named after him. He started his career as a government employee.
Later he joined the All India Radio as a staff artist where he worked as a programme executive at various stations and subsequently rose to the position of Station Director. K. Achary wrote many plays for radio. and more than twenty plays for professional theatre.
He was also a writer of humour, and a painter.
K. Achary penned story, screenplay and dialogues for 22 Malayalam movies and many of them were successful at the box office.
