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B. Saroja Devi, Icon of South Indian Cinema, Dies at 87
B. Saroja Devi, one of the most celebrated leading ladies of South Indian cinema, has died. She was 87.
B. Saroja Devi, one of the most celebrated leading ladies of South Indian cinema whose cross-industry stardom spanned Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi-language films, died on Monday at her residence in Malleswaram, Bengaluru. She remained a dominant screen presence through the 1960s and ’70s, delivering a string of hits including “Puthiya Paravai,” “Anbe Vaa,” “Kalyana Parisu,” and “Paigham,” the latter marking one of her early forays into Hindi-language cinema. Actor and politician Kamal Haasanposted: “Wherever she saw me – at any age of mine – with fingers pinching my cheeks, with a voice calling me ‘dear son,’ she was another mother to me, Saroja Devi Amma.
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