How B Saroja Devi became Kannada cinema’s female superstar
B. Saroja Devi in the 1977 Kannada film ‘Bhagyavantharu’, B Saroja Devi, who passed away at 87 on Monday (July 14, 2025), is a great example of a self-made star. Debuting in Kannada with Mahakavi Kalidasa (1955), she broke the glass ceiling to become a pan-India phenomenon and came to be hailed as the first female superstar of Kannada cinema….