B. S. Saroja (born 18 November 1929) is an Indian actress in

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...

and Tamil films. She is the daughter of Johnson, who acted in the first Malayalam film,

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. She acted with

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and

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in their only movie together,

Koondukkili ''Koondukkili'' () is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed and co-produced by T. R. Ramanna. The film stars M. G. Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan and B. S. Saroja. Although a commercial failure, it gained historical reputation over t ...

Personal life

She was born to Johnson and Rajalakshmi at

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

in 1929. She studied till fourth grade. Then she joined a circus company, with which she traveled all over India. Then she acted in a Tamil movie as a junior artist. ''Jeevitha Nouka'' was her first Malayalam movie. She went on to act many movies after that.

Partial filmography

References

External links

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B. S. Saroja at MSI
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