- Miss Kumari has won two Madras State Award for Best Actress for her performances in Aniyathi (1955) and Aana Valarthiya Vanampadi (1961).
- Her fame reached a fever pitch in 1954 with the release of Neelakuyil, where she starred alongside Sathyan. Neelakuyil was a huge success at the box office and wins the President's Silver Medal and marks the first time this honor had been bestowed on a South Indian film. It is now regarded a landmark film in Malayalam film history.
- Miss Kumari has, in her career spanning 18 years done, 34 films.
- Miss Kumari was totally cut off from the world of cinema during her last days. She lived in isolation, indifferent of what was happening around her. Some Kochi-based film journalists who had met her knew what was happening. She seemed to be tormented, in a state of mental agony and fear.
- In 1963, Miss Kumari married Hormis Thaliath, an engineer at F.A.C.T Kochi. She immediately retired from the industry to focus on family life. The couple had three children: Johnny, Thomas, and Babu. Johnny is in the finance business, Thomas is a Computer Engineer in California and Babu is a Professor in the Centre of German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
- Miss Kumari Memorial Stadium was built in Bharananganam, which was inaugurated by veteran actor Prem Nazir.
- She did her primary education at Bharanganam Sacred Hearts High School, an all girls high school run by The Franciscan Clarist Congregation Of Sisters.
- She was an Indian actress working in the Malayalam film industry between 1949 and 1969.
- In the 50's and early 60's she was the most prominent female lead in the Malayalam film industry.
- After her studies, she worked briefly as a teacher at Bharanganam Sacred Hearts High School (where she studied and went on school too).
- Another film in which she starred, Padatha Paingili (1957) won the President's Silver Medal, being the second Malayalam film to do so.
- She took on the stage name Miss Kumari on the sets of her second film, Nalla Thanka.
- She made her film debut in the 1949 film Vellinakshatram.
- Miss Kumari was rushed to Jawaharlal Memorial Hospital, Udyogamandal, following a stomach ailment but she breathed her last on the way.
- Miss Kumari was recognized after her 1950 blockbuster film Nalla Thanka where she essayed the role of NallaThanka. Nalla Thanka was a remake of the Tamil movie Nalla Thankal which was made in 1935.
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