B Saroja Devi, First Female Superstar Of Kannada Cinema, Dies At 87 | Read

Veteran actor B Saroja Devi died on Monday. She was 87. She acted in over 200 films across Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi languages.

Saroja Devi began her film career at the age of 17 with the Kannada film Mahakavi Kalidasa in 1955. She rose to fame with the Tamil film Nadodi Mannan (1958), where she starred opposite MG Ramachandran. 

The success of the film made her a household name and marked the beginning of her successful run in Tamil cinema.