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B. Saroja Devi is a Actor Indian born on 1 july 1938 at Karnataka (Inde)

B. Saroja Devi

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Nationality Inde
Birth 1 july 1938 (85 years) at Karnataka (Inde)
Awards Padma Bhushan

B. Saroja Devi is an Indian actress, who has acted in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies. One of the most successful female leads in the history of Indian cinema, she acted in around 200 films. She is known by the epithets "Kannadathu Paingili" (Kannada Nightingale) and "Abinaya Saraswathi" (Saraswati of acting).

At the age of 14, Saroja Devi got her big break in the Kannada film Mahakavi Kalidasa (1955). In Telugu cinema, she made her debut with Panduranga Mahatyam (1959), and starred in a number of successful films until the late 1970s. The Tamil film Nadodi Mannan (1958) made her one of the top actresses in Tamil cinema. Her career in Tamil films declined after her marriage in 1967, but she continued to be one of the top actresses in Kannada cinema until the 1980s. She also starred in Hindi films until the mid-1960s, starting with Paigham (1959).

Saroja Devi received the Padma Sri, the fourth-highest civilian honour, in 1969 and Padma Bhushan, third highest civilian award, in 1992 from the Government of India.

Biography

Saroja Devi had an arranged marriage with Shriharsha, a Bharat Electronics engineer from her own Gounder caste, on 1 March 1967. At that time, she was facing a financial crisis and income tax troubles. Her husband helped her overcome these problems, and taught her how to manage her finances. Her husband encouraged her to continue acting, and their marriage lasted till his death in 1986.

The couple had three daughters (Bhuvaneshwari and Indira), and a son - (Gautam Ramachandran). Her son was named after M.G. Ramachandran, while Indira was named after Indira Gandhi. Bhuvaneshwari died young, and Saroja Devi sponsors the Bhuvaneshwari Award for literature in her memory.

Usually with

M. G. Ramachandran
M. G. Ramachandran
(28 films)
M. N. Nambiar
M. N. Nambiar
(27 films)
Nagesh
Nagesh
(25 films)
Sivaji Ganesan
Sivaji Ganesan
(21 films)
M.S.Viswanathan
M.S.Viswanathan
(20 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of B. Saroja Devi (108 films)

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Aadhavan
Aadhavan (2009)
, 2h48
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Suriya, Nayantara, Murali, B. Saroja Devi, Sayaji Shinde, Rahul Dev
Roles Rajalakshmi
Rating55% 2.751372.751372.751372.751372.75137
Aadhavan (Suriya) is a professional assassin working with his father Ibrahim Rowther (Sayaji Shinde) and brother Tharani (Anand Babu). Doctor Abdul Kulkarni(Rahul Dev) hires Aadhavan to kill prominent Judge Subramaniam (Murali), since he is handling the inquiry and verdict on Abdul's child kidnapping, murder and organ trafficking cases in Kolkata. Aadhavan attempts to murder Subramaniam but fails at the first attempt. After Abdul insults him for his inability, Aadhavan is angry with himself and promises to kill Subramaniam within ten days. He threatens the Judge's comical servant Bannerjee (Vadivelu) to help him get into the house as Murugan, Bannerjee's brother in law, while he locks up the actual Murugan(Sathyan) in his ship.
Prarambha
Prarambha (2007)
, 13minutes
Directed by Santosh Sivan
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors Prabhu Deva, B. Saroja Devi, Jayanthi, Anu Prabhakar, Ramya, Sadhu Kokila
Roles Headmistress
Rating77% 3.885983.885983.885983.885983.88598
The story of the film begins when Puttaswamy (Prabhu Deva), a truck driver, arrives at his place in Mysore. Puttaswamy discovers a little boy Kittu (Skandha) in the back of his truck. Kittu is on a journey to find his mother (Anu Prabhakar), who left him upon discovering that she was HIV positive.
Once More
Once More (1997)

Directed by S.A.Chandrasekhar
Actors Sivaji Ganesan, Vijay, Simran, B. Saroja Devi, S. Manivannan, Anju Aravind
Roles Shantha
Rating67% 3.395443.395443.395443.395443.39544
Vijay (Vijay) is a rich young business man, whose only one aim in life is to have fun, is the managing director of a big tea estate in Ooty and his company goes on a big loss because of his mismanagement. Vijay spends most of his time in partying and flirting with girls whenever he feels like. To manage the loss to his company, Vijay invites his father Rajasekar (who is in the United States) to come to India to sign some documents. As fate would have it, Vijay's father dies in a plane crash on his way to India. His maternal uncle (Manivannan) comes up with the idea of having another elderly person to act as Vijay's father for a while until the documents are signed. So they visit a senior home, where they meet Selvam (Sivaji Ganesan) and they request him to act as Vijay's father. He agrees to it and starts to act as Vijay's father.
Ponmana Selvan
Ponmana Selvan (1989)
, 2h19
Directed by P. Vasu
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Shobana, Gemini Ganesan, B. Saroja Devi, Goundamani, Jaishankar, Radha Ravi
Roles Meenakshi
Rating57% 2.899912.899912.899912.899912.89991
Thaimel Aanai
Thaimel Aanai (1988)

Genres Action
Actors B. Saroja Devi, Arjun Sarja, Anandaraj, Raghuvaran, Y. G. Mahendran, Ranjini
Rating31% 1.577231.577231.577231.577231.57723
Thaimel Aanai is the story of a son's revenge on the killers of his mother and sister, but his friend, who is now a Police officer do not like someone taking law in his hands.