Sowcar Janaki

Sowcar Janaki

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Sowcar Janaki Profile

  • Name:
  • Sowcar Janaki
  • Other Name:
  • Sankaramanchi Janaki, Shavukar Janaki
  • Born:
  • December 12, 1931
  • Father:
  • T. Venkoji Rao
  • Mother:
  • Sachi Devi
  • Spouse:
  • Sankamaranchi Srinivasa Rao

Sowcar Janaki Biography

Sowcar Janaki is a former actress of South Indian cinema, who pre-dominantly worked in Tamil cinema. She has worked with all lead actors of her time including Sivaji Ganesan and MGR and later moved to character roles. She has also acted in Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films and her total films count to about 385. She also performed on stage in over 300 shows till now. Sowcar is a commercially successful Telugu movie that she acted and later that tagged got added to her name. Sowcar (Telugu), Pudhiya Paravai (Tamil), Iru Kodugal (Tamil) are her noted movies as an actress. Actress Vaishnavi is her granddaughter.

 

Her real name is Sankaramanchi Janaki, born to T. Venkoji Rao, and Sachi Devi. She was born on December 12, 1931. Her father was a paper technologist of England. She completed matriculation from Gauhati University in Assam and has received honorary Doctorate from University of Arizona. At the age of 11, she was a radio artist in Telugu programs. She got married to Sankamaranchi Srinivasa Rao in 1947. She entered films when her daughter, Krishna Kumari was 3 month old. Her first Telugu movie was Shavukar. Later she went on to become a popular actress of Tamil as well as Telugu. 

 

She has played lead role opposite top south Indian stars - A. Nageswara Rao, N.T.R, Jaggaiah, Sivaji Ganesan, M.G.R and Gemini Ganesan. She acted in 10 Kannada films opposite Dr. RajKumar. Throughout her career, she received numerous awards including Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actress and Filmfare awards. She has a fabulous record of a successful supporting actress in Malayalam cinema. Janaki served as Jury member for the National Indian Films awards committee and as chair person for State Telugu Films awards committee. 

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Updated: May 29, 2018

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