ROTARY SIVAJI AWARDS PRESENTED

Rotary Sivaji Awards were presented to the veteran actress Saroja Devi, Lakshmi, Nagesh, Playback singers like P.Susheela, Vani Jayaram at the 79 th birthday celebration of the Late Shivaji Ganesan at a function organized by the Chennai Vision Charitable Trust and Rotary Club of Chennai -Samudra recently (30.9.07).

The money received by way of ticket sales were given to the various community projects undertaken by the Rajan Eye Care Hospital with Rotary Club, actor Y.G.Mahendran said. Y.G.Mahendra who has been celebrating the birthday of Shivaji Ganesan for the last five years was instrumental for the community service projects. This year Shivaji Ganesan's birthday coincided with celebrating of the celebrating of the Tamil films two directors late A.P.Nagarajan and late A.C.Trilokchander who produced a lot of films with the late Shivaji in main roles. Thillalana Mohanambal, Thiruvarut Chelvar to cite a few films which rocked the Tamil film industry in seventies. In the celebration Y.G.Mahendran's Y.Gee Melody Makers music troupe performed the songs of Shivaji Ganesan in which the late directors A.P.Nagarajan and A.C.Trilokchander were associated.

Saroja Devi gets N T Rama Rao National Film Award

Yesteryear actress B Saroja Devi has been chosen for the prestigious N T Rama Rao National Film Award for 2009.

Noted director K Raghavendra Rao has been chosen for the B N Reddy National Film Award while media baron and film producer Ch Ramoji Rao has been chosen for the Nagireddy- Chakrapani National Award instituted by the Andhra Pradesh. Another producer K Raghava has been chosen for the Raghupati Venkaiah Award, the Telugu equivalent of Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy will present the awards at a function here on December 12.

Born in Karnataka, 72-year-old Saroja Devi has acted in about 170 films in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi and won several honours at the state and the national level. She was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 1992.

Good Coincidence in Awards to DR Devi

The yesteryears actress of high caliber Dr B Saroja Devi who was heroine to both N.T.Rama Rao and Rajakumar in many films besides being heroine to M.G.Ramachandran, Shivaji Ganeshan, Gemini Ganeshan, Dilip Kumar, Kalyankumar and others gets a distinction.

Within a few days gap the two states – Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh announced awards for this leading lady Dr B Saroja Devi the Padmabushan award winner. Both the awards instituted in the names of heroes of the actress coming to her made her extremely happy.

The actress of NTR films and Dr Rajakumar films gets the NTR award and Dr Rajakumar award almost at the same time.

After the announcement of Dr Rajakumar ward for her by the 2008-2009 state award committee a few days later this 170 films plus actress in various languages get the NTR the prestigious award from Andhra Pradesh government.

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