Acting
Apr 6, 1962
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Kovai Sarala
Acting
Biography
Kovai Sarala is an Indian Film actress and Comedian, who prominently plays supporting roles in Tamil and Telugu films. In a career spanning 25 years, Sarala has appeared in over 750 films. She has won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian and the Nandi Award for Best Female Comedian for her performances in Poovellam Un Vasam (2001), and Ori Nee Prema Bangaram Kanu (2003), respectively. She got her first film offer when she was in the 9th standard and acted with Vijayakumar and K. R. Vijaya in the film Velli Ratham. She was in Class 10, when she played a 32-year-old pregnant woman Mundhanai Mudichu, her second film. Two years later she acted in Chinna Veedu, where she played the role of the 65-year-old mother of Bhagyaraj's character. She has appeared in more than a 100 films in Telugu. She has mentioned the films Sathi Leelavathi, Viralukketha Veekkam, Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana, Karagattakaran and Viswanathan Ramamoorthy as her personal favourites.
Feature Films (268)
Gopal causes much angst among his male neighbours as he is friendly with their spouses. They are relieved when he marries Usha. But Usha leaves him after learning that he was married once before.
Gopala Gopala
A family of low-level crooks is mistaken for ghostbusters and asked to get rid of the ghosts haunting a bungalow.
Pei Mama
Mohan-a dance master loves Kavitha and their marriage is fixed. However, Mohan meets with an accident and gets paralyses. Kavitha leaves Mohan because of her mother and so Stella takes care of him.
Ananda Aradhanai
Ravi returns to India after ignoring the protests of his mother who knows that he is in grave danger from a revenge-seeking snake. Soon, the snake's spirit takes control of Ravi's wife.
Manaivi Oru Manickam
ACP Shanti, an honest police officer, is given the responsibility of investigating the mysterious deaths at a palace in Kanchipuram. But when she gets there, the situation turns from bad to worse.
Maaligai
Seeing Balu's spendthrift and carefree attitude, his father sends him to his friend's house in a village to get reformed. Things get complicated when he gets entangled in a love triangle.
Thambikku Entha Ooru
Selvam, the new vice principal of a college, tries to transform the behaviour of troublemaking students while fighting an inner war.
Nammavar
Marthandan, the son of a rich man in the village, gets bored of his life and decides to go to the city and live a simple life like the underprivileged.
My Dear Marthandan
Television & Series (1)
Devika, a compassionate and grounded music teacher living a seemingly ordinary life, is engaged to an insecured and possessive Jaggu. Meanwhile, she bumps into a stranger Danny and his arrival begins to shift Devika's world, leading her down an unforeseen path of self-discovery and unexpected connections.