Roja Ramani

Roja Ramani (born 16 September 1959) is a South Indian movie actress who predominantly worked in Telugu cinema. She was a child star in her debut movie Bhakta Prahlada (1967) for which she received National Film Award for Best Child Artist. She was popular during the 1970s and early 1980s and has acted in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada movies. She worked in 400 films as a dubbing artiste. She is an active member of BlueCross and involves in several social service activities.

Early life

She was born in Madras, India. Her father was a journalist with Picture Post. She has two siblings.

Career

She had started her career at the age of 5yrs in 1966 as a title role in a popular and Evergreen Film called Bhaktha Prahaladha in Telugu language. It is the first full length Eastman color feature film which was produced by AVM Productions. It was a blockbuster hit film.

She acted in more than 70 films as a child artist and at the age of 13 years she acted as a heroine in Malayalam movie called Chambarathi which went on to be a record breaking hit and was a trendsetter at the time. The same movie was remade with Ramani in Telugu as Kanne Vayasu and in Tamil as Paruva Kalam which also went on to be huge hits.