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Nationality
  
India

Name
  
M. Saroja

Died
  
April 2, 2012, T. Nagar

Occupation
  
Actress, Comedienne

Role
  
Film actress

Children
  
Sumathi Thangavelu

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Spouse
  
K. A. Thangavelu (m. ?–1994)

Movies
  
Kalyana Parisu, Then Nilavu, Vanangamudi, Adutha Veettu Penn, Arivaali

Similar People
  
K A Thangavelu, T R Sundaram, G Ramanathan, C V Sridhar, Kannadasan

M. Saroja (Tamil: சரோஜா) was an Indian film actress and comedienne who worked in Tamil cinema. She was frequently paired alongside K. A. Thangavelu.

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Career

Director K. Subramaniam introduced Saroja to the film industry, when she was 14 years old. She played the role of leading Tamil actor M. G. Ramachandran’s cousin in the film Sarvadhikari, her debut. Later on, she continued to act in more than 300 films in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada languages. The most important film in her career was the Kalyana Parisu in which she paired with her husband K. A. Thangavelu.

Personal life

On the 100th day celebrations of Kalyana Parisu, Saroja and Thangavelu got married in Madurai Murugan Temple. They have a daughter Sumathi. Thangavelu died in 1994.

Death

On 2 April 2012, she died due to cardiac arrest at her home in T. Nagar, Chennai. She was 79 years old.

Awards

The Tamil Nadu Government felicitated her with Kalaimamani Award in appreciation.

References

M. Saroja Wikipedia