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Category: Cinema. Sowcar Janaki is a former actress of South Indian cinema, who pre-dominantly worked in Tamil cinema. She has worked with all lead actors of her time including Sivaji Ganesan and MGR and later moved to character roles. She has also acted in Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films and her total films count to about She also performed on stage in over shows till now.

Sowcar is a commercially successful Telugu movie that she acted and later that tagged got added to her name. Actress Vaishnavi is her granddaughter.

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Her real name is Sankaramanchi Janaki, born to T. Venkoji Rao, and Sachi Devi. She was born on December 12, Her father was a paper technologist of England. She completed matriculation from Gauhati University in Assam and has received honorary Doctorate from University of Arizona. At the age of 11, she was a radio artist in Telugu programs.

She got married to Sankamaranchi Srinivasa Rao in She entered films when her daughter, Krishna Kumari was 3 month old. Her first Telugu movie was Shavukar. Later she went on to become a popular actress of Tamil as well as Telugu.