Garikapati Varalakshmi
G. Varalakshmi ( Garikipati Varalakshmi; Telugu. జి వరలక్ష్మి; born 27 September 1926 in Ongole, † 26 November 2006 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu ) was an Indian actress, singer and film producer. She starred in the Tamil and Telugu film.
Life
Varalakshmi came from Set in the present-day Andhra Pradesh Ongole place. At the age of eleven, she ran away from home to Vijayawada and joined theater troops. She has appeared with the troops of Tungala Chalapathi Rao and Dasari Kotiratnam and played among other things, the role of Radha in the - 1934/35 with Chalapathi and Kotiratnam in Tamil and Telugu filmed - piece Sakkubai and Prabhavati in Rangoon Rowdy.
Varalakshmi made her film debut in 1940 in HM Reddy's film Barrister Parvatisham, in which the later film producer and director LV Prasad occurred. In 1943, she married actor KS Prakash Rao. She went to Bombay and sang as a backing singer for Naushad, but returned in 1946 because of lack of success back in the South Indian film industry. Varalakshmi works under the direction LV Prasad in Drohi (1948 ), the first of her husband and produced film, which also boosted her career. In the 1950s and 60s, she took on main and character roles in Telugu and Tamil films. She played both with her husband and with the Tamil Stars MG Ramachandran, including in Gul -e- Bakavali (1955), Sivaji Ganesan and in Naan Petra Selvan (1956).
In the written and produced by her Telugu film Moogajeevulu (1968 ) she was cast and led to direct myself. G. Varalakshmi played in at least 94 films. After 1980 she retired from film work.