SISTER IN LAW

MGR acted in 134 films (2 films after his death) and he co stared with many actress but MGR fans most loved pairs are Saroja Devi, Jayalalitha and Lath. MGR Fans admire these 3 actresses, so much and they call them lovingly as Sister-in-laws.

Saroja Devi was called Elder Sister-in-law (Periya Anni) MGR first paired with Saroja Devi in the movie "Thirudathae" (Don’t Steal) as she was a new face to Tamil movie. Her mother tongue is Kannada. She was also called as "Abinaya Saraswathi" and "Kannada Paingkili". The shooting of "Thirudathae" was postponed and eventfully MGR's block buster movie "Nadodi Mannan" (Wander and King) released. That gave her immediate Stardom status.


This pair continued for a decade until Saroja Devi got married with Mr.Harsha. MGR and Saroja Devi acted as Hero and Heroine in 26 films and out of these "Nadodi Mannan" and "Enga Veetu Pillai" were Silver Jubilee films. One flop film (only flop film for MGR) "Pasam" (Love)

When MGR was shot in January 12th 1967 by his fellow actor M.R.Radha, some of his films were dropped, some films were rechristened and some of the film heroines were changed one of these was "Ragasiya Police 115", earlier Saroja Devi was in the role of Heroine but after the accident Jayalalitha donned the role.


One peculiar thing is that all of MGR most loved pairs showed their skin to the camera but not Saroja Devi, her character as well as the costumes is immaculate, that gave her homely appearance.

Whenever she was interviewed she says her God is MGR and she has two sad incidents in her life that were the death of her Husband and death of MGR. She never forgets MGR.