B. Saroja Devi biography
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Birthplace : Karnataka, India
Nationality : Indian
Category : Arts and Entertainment
Last modified : 2011-07-07 14:23:06
Credited as : Film actress, Padma Bhushan award ,
Born in Karnataka, Saroja Devi has acted in about 170 films in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi and won several honors at the state and the national level. She was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 1992.
Her indulgent father was the first to inform her that she would take acting as her career. A young Saroja Devi was often chaperoned to studios by him. He would patiently tie on her salangais, often massaging swollen feet after her dancing stints.
Saroja Devi made her debut at the age of 11 in the Kannada film Mahakavi Kalidasa. Directed by the late Honnappa Bhagavathar, the film was released in 1956. She went on to star in popular Kannada films like Anna Thangi and Schoolmaster. She also has the privilege of working in the first colour film of Kannada titled Amarashilpi Jakanachari.
She is referred to as Abinaya Saraswathi by Tamil film industry and as Kannadathu Paingili (meaning Kannada's Parrot) by Kannada Film Industry.She ruled the roost for more than three decades especially in the period 1955-1985 as the lead actress. She is considered perhaps the only actress in world to have had more than 120 superhits to her credit as the leading heroine.
The actress was born and brought up in Bangalore and moved there after taking a break from films.
Saroja Devi was not a feminist. She has been quoted as saying that man was too important a part of a woman's life to be ignored. Her marriage in 1967 to engineer Sri Harsha cemented this fact. Her husband had reportedly no qualms about her star status, and was a 'complete gentleman,' to quote Sivaji Ganesan himself.
The fact that she was careful not to involve herself in too many controversies and scandals obviously helped
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