Kovai Sarala

Kovai Sarala is anIndianFilm actressandComedian, who prominently plays supporting roles inTamilandTelugufilms. In a career spanning 25 years, Sarala has appeared in over 750 films.She has won theTamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedianand theNandi Award for Best Female Comedianfor her performances inPoovellam Un Vasam(2001),andOri 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.