Actress Soundarya – Savitri of modern Telugu cinema

Actress Soundarya – Savitri of modern Telugu cinema

Indian multilingual actress and producer Soundarya was born on 18/07/1976 in Ganjigunte village of Kolar district. She worked in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi films in lead roles.

Soundarya was born in a Kannada speaking family to an industrialist and Kannada film writer-producer K. S. Satyanarayana. She discontinued her M.B.B.S. first year in Bangalore. She married G. S. Raghu, who is a childhood friend and a Software Engineer. She had wide popularity and tremendous goodwill among Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and is probably the most successful actress after Savitri in the history of Telugu cinema and is often called the “Savitri of modern Telugu cinema”.

She received the National Award for Best Feature Film as producer for the Kannada film “Dweepa”. She also was the recipient of two Karnataka State Film Awards for Best Actress, several Filmfare Awards (south) and Nandi Awards for her performance in films.

At the peak of her career, Soundarya died in an aircraft crash near Bangalore on 17 April 2004, when she was on her way to Andhra Pradesh to campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party. Her untimely demise in a helicopter accident was as great loss to the South Indian Film Industry.

The special cover released on the occasion of Kolarpex 2018 features a colour portrait of Soundarya against a background with a film roll with her portraits. The cover also carries the Kolarpex 2018 logo. The special pictorial cancellation is a line graphic sketch of the Kolaramma temple which is also the logo of Kolarpex 2018 and issued on  18-11-2018 ( KTK /104/2018).