Anjali Devi

Anjali Devi is one of those pillars of South Indian cinema whose name deserves more global recognition than it gets. What strikes me most is not just her iconic roles in Telugu and Tamil films like Lava Kusa, but that she stepped behind the camera as a producer in an era when that was almost unheard of for a woman. The 1994 Raghupathi Venkaiah Award reads, to me, like the industry quietly acknowledging a figure who helped build it. I admire performers who refuse to stay only on one side of the lens, and she clearly did exactly that.

Name (English)

Anjali Devi

Name (Japanese)

アンジャーリー・デヴィ

Reading

あんじゃーりー・でゔぃ

Born

August 24, 1927 – January 13, 2014

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

Origin

Peddapuram mandal, Andhra Pradesh, India

Occupation

actor / film producer / film actor / manufacturer

University

Acharya Nagarjuna University

Awards & achievements

• 1994 Raghupathi Venkaiah Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anjali%20Devi
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4765733

Tags

• Andhra Pradesh
• actor
• film producer
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.