Career
Vimala has taught about 5000 students and still continues her successful teaching career of 50 years. Vimala has bought forward many innovative ideas about a forms and styles of Mohiniyattam. Vimala has her name in Guinness Book of Records for training and putting on a show of Mohiniyattam consisting of 1200 dancers.
Vimala was born into an affluent family in a village in Irinjalakuda, Thrissur district.
She is the second of seven children born to South. K. Krishnan Nair, a civil engineer, and Vishalakshy Amma. Vimala learned her initial dance lessons from Thripunithura Vijaya Bhanu.
She also had her training in Carnatic music under M. R. Madhusudanan Nair. After completing her school education, she joined Kerala Kalamandalam for a four-year diploma course in dance in 1960.
At Kalamandalam, she had training in Mohiniyattam under the tutelage of Pazhayannoor Chinnammu Amma and Kalamandalam Satyabhama.
She also studied Bharata Natyam under Thanjavoor Bhaskara Rao. During her stay in Bhutan, Vimala taught dance in the Bhutan Government School and performed South Indian Classical dance in many places.
