K. R. Vijaya Filmography

K. R. Vijaya is an Indian actress who has starred in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. She started her career in the 1960s. She has been acting for more than four decades now in South Indian cinema. K. R. Vijaya has worked with almost all the stalwarts of South Indian cinema and has played a variety of roles. Vijaya was born on 30 November 1948. She spent most of her childhood in the holy city of Palani. Vijaya's father was from Andhra Pradesh and he wanted her to become an actress since he was himself acting in M. K. Radha's drama troupe at the time. Vijaya played the title character, a... heroine, in her debut film Karpagam, directed by K. S. Gopalakrishnan who also directed her 100th film Nadhiyil Muthu. Karpagam was released in 1963. Vijaya has starred in almost 400 films in all the South Indian languages, including 100 films each in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu, half-a-dozen in Kannada, and one in Hindi titled Oonche Log . Her co-stars in the Hindi movie were Raaj Kumar and Feroz Khan. She received many offers in Hindi, but did not accept them as she was busy in the South.
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