Saroja Devi & M. V. Rajamma Movies Together List — 5 Films

The shape of the work

Saroja Devi acted in every film; M. V. Rajamma acted in all of them. Strictly Tamil cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Saroja Devi was already a star when she agreed to do Aalayamani (1962), but she specifically asked for M. V. Rajamma to play her mother — she felt Rajamma's screen presence would give the emotional scenes more weight.
• In Panathottam (1963), Rajamma's character is the stern matriarch, but Saroja Devi kept breaking character during rehearsals because Rajamma would whisper funny lines in her ear — the director had to yell 'cut' multiple times.
• During the shoot of Dharmam Thalai Kaakkum (1963), Saroja Devi's mother fell ill. Rajamma cooked and brought her food to the set every single day for two weeks — no one asked her to.
• Their pairing in Pasamum Nesamum (1964) was so convincing as mother-daughter that the director later cast them again in the same roles in a Telugu remake — that film launched a young actor who became a major star in the 1970s.
• Saroja Devi once told a magazine: 'Rajamma amma never let me feel like I was acting alone. She would hold my hand off-camera even when the shot was only on me.'