Actress Saroja Devi

I saw on a Facebook post yesterday that Saraoja Devi passed away aged 87.

That brought back memories. When I was growing up, we only watched Tamil movies and heard Tamil songs at home. My parents were Tamil school teachers and were not conversant in English and so that was what we heard and saw.

So I am very familiar with the 60s and early 70s Tamil movies and songs. And in the early 60s, Saraoja Devi was a very famous actress. She starred in all the major hits of that era together with the 2 male heroes of that period, MGR and Sivaji. Most of them were black and white movies.

She was the last surviving actor from that era and now with her gone, that era has come to an end

Fortunately the movies are still with us, together with all the wonderful songs from those movies.