12 08 2018
Interview With B. Saroja Devi, The Queen Of Tamil Cinema – 1

12 08 2018
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09 01 2018
BY VANDHANA ON FEBRUARY 19, 2017
Saroja Devi – one of the few remaining superstars of the glorious 50s – still meets with weird fan requests. She has been asked for a bit of her hair, her clothing, and once, even a handkerchief she’d used. “Why would they want my old sari?” she wonders. A trip to the local market is not complete without people (of all ages) mobbing her. And, in this celebrity-obsessed world, life for Saroja Devi has become quite troublesome, indeed. “A young man approached me late at night one day,” Saroja recounts. “He held a metal stick, and kept walking towards me. I yelled for my driver; I thought I was going to be attacked.” He turned out to be a fan who just want a picture. The metal rod happened to be a selfie stick. “I felt very bad later,” she confesses, “I apologised to him, and took several pictures.
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