Popular actress of yesteryears, E V Saroja, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Chennai Friday, her family said.
Saroja, 71, was survived by a son and a daughter. She had over seventy films to her credit and was paired with the late M G Ramachandran and late Sivaji Ganesan in many films in the 1960s.
Her husband T R Ramanna, a popular film director, died a couple of years ago. Meanwhile, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa, in a statement, said she was deeply saddened to hear about the death of Saroja.
Her death is a great loss to the Tamil film world, she said and extended her condolences to members of the bereaved family.