Sachu

Sachu is a veteran Tamil actress, who was born and brought up in an orthodox family in Mylapore, Chennai. She was born as Saraswathi in 1948 and was introduced to acting at an early age of 4 and has been active ever since. Her family had musicians, lawyers, etc. but no actress,  hence she found it difficult to convince her Orthodox father to accept her profession. She has acted in hundreds of films in over five languages and also acted in a few serials on television. She predominantly plays a supportive role or as a comedienne in almost all of her movies. 

 Her first movie was ' Rani Ranee is an Odia family drama TV serial that aired >> Read More... ' in which she acted at the age of 4 and went on to act in stage plays through the years and has made a big mark in the industry. Sachu replaced the space left by the absence of Baby Saroja, and her performances were adored by the Tamil audience. She then performed with stars of the Tamil industry like Padmini, Savithri, Anjali Devi Anjali Devi was born on 24th August, 1927 in Andhr >> Read More... , etc. She then had her big breakthrough in ‘Maya Bazaar’ where she played Kutty Valsala and reached far and wide through the audience. She also played in the legendary ‘ Kadhalikka Neramillai Kadhalikka Neramillai was a soap opera that was te >> Read More... ’ as a comedienne alongside greats like Muthuraman, Nagesh, M. R. Radha, ‘Thengai’ Srinivasan, etc. She took to playing plays and dramas in the 1970s and played her first play in playwright and director PVR’s ‘Neerottam’. Since then she has acted in several plays and movies alongside Sivaji Ganesan The Honorable Mr. Ganesan was the second son in hi >> Read More... , MGR, Nagesh, etc. 

Later in the 1980s, she played with younger stars like Kamal Hassan, Rajinikanth and in the next decade, we saw her play roles alongside the next generation of Vijay, Surya, Karthik, etc. She then moved on to the small screen, television serials in the 2000s. She played a comedienne in ‘Maanbumigu Mayor’, ‘ Dinesh Ganesh Dinesh Ganesh was aired in Doordarshan in the earl >> Read More... ’, and ‘Veettukku Veedu Looty’ taking her name to higher levels of versatility. She was awarded the 'Kalaimamani' award in 1991 by the then Chief Minister J Jayalalitha.