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Sowcar Janaki is a Actor Indian born on 12 december 1931 at Rajahmundry (Inde)
Sankaramanchi Janaki (born 12 December 1931), popularly known as Sowcar Janaki, is a south-Indian actress who has acted in over 385 Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films. She also performed on stage in over 300 shows and was a radio artist during her earlier years. She became a popular actress with hits such as Sowcar (Telugu), Puthiya Paravai (Tamil) and Iru Kodugal (Tamil). She worked with famous directors such as Dada Mirasee and K Balachandar. She served as jury member for the National Indian Films awards committee and as chair person for state Telugu Films awards committee.
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Sowcar Janaki
Birth name Sankaramanchi Janaki
Nationality Inde
Birth 12 december 1931 (92 years) at Rajahmundry (Inde)
Awards Nandi Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 12 december 1931 (92 years) at Rajahmundry (Inde)
Awards Nandi Awards
Biography
She is the elder daughter of T. Venkoji Rao and Sachi Devi of Rajahmundry. She completed her earlier studies from Gauhati University in Assam and has received honorary Doctorate from University of Arizona. She has two daughters and a son, four grandchildren and two great granddaughters.Usually with
Filmography of Sowcar Janaki (114 films)
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Yevade Subramanyam (2015)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Sports films
Actors Nani, Malavika Nair, Ritu Varma, Malavika Nair, Vijay Deverakonda, Nassar
Roles Susheela
Rating73%
Subramanyam (Nani), called by everybody as Subbu, is a materialistic IIM graduate who is very ambitious. He works for Pasupathi (Nassar), who aims to buy his rival Ramaiah's(Krishnam Raju) Company but fails at it. Subbu, with his wit and ability to manipulate people, makes Ramaiah's employees sell their shares. With this being Pasupathi's biggest success, Subbu gets engaged to his boss's daughter Riya (Ritu Varma). During the engagement ceremony, a childhood friend, Rishi (Vijay Devarakonda), enters his life. Rishi is very energetic and opposite in the character to Subbu. Rishi is a true artist of life, who lives and never thinks about living. The same day they encounter a free-spirited girl Anandi (Malavika Nair) in a pub. Rishi reveals his dream is to travel with Subbu to Doodh Kashi, a holy lake in the Himalayas.
Kanche (2015)
, 2h6Directed by Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Konidela Sai Varun Teja, Pragya Jaiswal, Nikitin Dheer, Sowcar Janaki, Srinivas Avasarala, Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Roles Mahalakshmamma
Rating78%
This is the parallel story of a love story and a war. Dupati Hari Babu (Varun Tej) is a lower caste man studying in Chennai, in 1936. He falls in love with a girl named Sita (Pragya Jaiswal) who studies with him. They end up falling in love with each other. And after finishing their college, they go back to their hometown, a village named Devarakonda. There, Hari's grandfather and mother live in the same house. Eventually, Hari adjusts with the style of the village, realizing he is from a lower caste. But that does not matter to Hari or Seeta, and they are still in love, though nobody knows about it. Hari makes friends with Eeshwar (Nikitin Dheer), Seeta's brother who is very close with her. Eeshwar eventually finds out about the love birds, and tells his grandfather who raised them about Hari and Seeta's love story. His grandfather then raises a fight between castes in the village, and believes that when all the castes are fighting, it will kill Hari as well. The fights get very serious, and hundreds of people start dying from both the sides. This causes the villagers to set up 2 fences for each caste side, and no one from either of the castes is supposed to cross the fence of the latter. While all this happens, Eeshwar and his grandfather find a nice groom for Seeta and try to marry her off to that man.
Vanavarayan Vallavarayan (2014)
, 2h16Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Kreshna, Monal Gajjar, Ma Ka Pa Anand, niharika kareer, Santhanam, S. P. B. Charan
Roles Krishna & Anand grand-mother
Rating52%
The story revolves around two brother's relationship that breaks because of a girl and the story is filled with love, romance, comedy, action, entertainment etc.
Pungi Daasa (2013)
, 2h33Actors Komal Kumar, Sowcar Janaki, B.C Patil, R. N. Sudarshan, Tabla Nani, Bullet Prakash
Roles Gayatri Devi
Abhi (2003)
, 2h20Directed by Dinesh Baboo
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Puneeth Rajkumar, Ramya, Sowcar Janaki, Sumithra, Raju Ananthaswamy, Umashree
Roles Janki, Abhi's mother
Rating4%
Abhi (Puneeth Rajkumar) is a cool guy who is good at cultural activities. Bhanu's (Ramya) family approaches Abhi's Family in search of a rental house. In the beginning,there is hatred between Abhi and Bhanu,but then they start to know each other. As Bhanu is a Muslim and Abhi is a Hindu, Bhanu's father does not agree for this and he eventually comes in search of Bhanu's lover to thrash him. Abhi does not agree with her father's behavior. In college they start to fight with each other. Bhanu comes to stop them and tells that he's her father. Bhanu's Father vacates the house and they all leave for Hubli. Abhi with his friends goes in search of Bhanu in Hubli. Somehow Abhi manages to talk with bhanu as their family does not know that he was the lover. Abhi and Bhanu hug in front of their family, then they will come to know that those two were lovers. The old lady in bhanu's house advises Abhi to leave the house immediately as the men from that house will be coming from mosque after the prayer. But Abhi asks why should he be scared of them, the old lady tells him that they will try to kill you. Abhi asks why and the old lady says that ask your mother. Abhi goes to Bangalore and ask his mother about that matter what that old lady told. Abhi's mother tells him a flash back story about Abhi's Real Parents and their Assassination. She will also reveal that she was his real mother. Bhanu also will hear the same story from her grandma. After some days bhanu decides to give up her love for her family's sake and she leaves Hubli and goes to Bangalore to tell this to Abhi. Abhi also agrees with her. But Bhanu's father thinks that she ran away to marry Abhi and he tries to kill Abhi. Then there will be fight between Abhi and Bhanu's father. The old lady advices Bhanu's father to stop his cruelty. He realizes his mistake and allows Bhanu to marry Abhi.
Ela Cheppanu (2003)
, 2h49Genres Romance
Actors Tarun Kumar, Shriya Saran, Vijayachander, Ashok Kumar, Tanikella Bharani, Brahmanandam
Rating62%
Hey Ram (2000)
, 3h22Directed by Kamal Haasan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Kamal Haasan, Shahrukh Khan, Atul Kulkarni, Hema Malini, Rani Mukherjee, Abbas
Roles Mythili's Grandmother
Rating78%
The film is about a protagonist's journey from religious hatred to love with the theme of the partition of Bengal in the background. Its relevance in the present Indian environment clouded by religious extremism was widely unrecognised. This is the story of Saket Ram, as narrated by his grandson. The film takes place as Ram, a retired archaeologist, lies on the deathbed, on 6 December 1999, the 7th anniversary of the destruction of Babri Mosque in Ayodhya.
Shabdavedhi (2000)
, 2h45Directed by S. Narayan
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Rajkumar, K. S. Ashwath, Sowcar Janaki, Umashree, Mukhyamantri Chandru
Rating73%
Shabdavedi is about Sandeep Rajkumar, a strict police officer crusading against narcotics. The man is so straight that when his wife Jaya Prada refuses to reveal the identity of a key link in the drug ring that he is investigating, he beats her in lockup. Eventually he overcomes all the usual attempts to throw him off the chase like tarnishing his reputation and implicating him in lock-up death cases and tracks the ring down to its last man.
Anbulla Kadhalukku (1999)
Directed by Mohan
Actors Mohan, Sangeetha, Megha, Bhavana, Jai Ganesh, Anand Babu
Chinna Raja (1999)
Directed by Chithra Lakshmanan
Genres Drama
Actors Karthik, Roja, Priya Raman, S. Manivannan, Jaishankar, Manobala
Ravoyi Chandamama (1999)
, 2h54Directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Anjala Zaveri, Keerthi Reddy, Aishwarya Rai, Jagapati Babu, Tanikella Bharani
Roles as Sasi's grand-mother
Rating48%
Thodarum (1999)
Actors Ajith Kumar, Devayani, Heera, Gemini Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki, S. Manivannan
Rating55%
Seetha (Devayani) is a possessive wife who suspects that all the women in the world are throwing themselves at her husband, Jayaram (Ajith Kumar). Things get a little interesting only after Meera (Heera) enters the picture and ends up hugging Jayaram right in front of Seetha's eyes. Seetha is diagnosed with a deadly heart condition and decides to have Jayaram and Meera to tie the knot for the sake of a good life for her young son. She even goes as far as getting a divorce from Jayaram to make him hate her. In the end, Seetha dies while giving birth to a female child and Jayaram and Meena gets married by naming the baby as Seetha.
Devi (1999)
Genres Fantasy
Actors Shiju Abdul Rasheed, Prema, Abu Salim, Bhanu Chander, Vanitha Vijayakumar, Sowcar Janaki
Roles Vijay's grand mother
Rating65%
Bavagaru Bagunnara (1998)
Directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Rambha, Paresh Rawal, Rachna Banerjee, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Annapoorna
Rating70%
Raju (Chiranjeevi) runs between New Zealand, where he owns a restaurant, and India to run a home for orphans started in his sister's name. Swapna (Rambha) is a student in New Zealand, staying with her uncle. Once she goes looking for Raju to take him to task for thrashing her friend. On learning that Raju was not at fault, she promptly falls in love with him.
Kondattam (1998)
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Actors Arjun Sarja, Simran, Raasi, Gemini Ganesan, Jai Ganesh, Vijayakumar
Roles Janaki