Roja (actress)

Film career

Roja entered the Industry with Telugu films. Her first movie was Prema Thapassu with Rajendra Prasad where the complete movie was shot in Tirupati.

She was introduced to the Tamil film industry by director R.K. Selvamani with Chembaruthi along with actor Prashanth. The movie was a hit and paved way for role in another success, Suriyan with Sarath Kumar. Both the films established her in Tamil cinema.^[6] She became popular with songs such as "meloor Maman" in the film Makkal Aatchi with Mammootty and "Mastana Mastana" in Raasaiyya with Prabhu Deva. Her performance in films with actors such as Rajnikanth in Veera, and Arjun Sarja in Ayudha Poojai were praised. Roja's major career breakthrough was in the film Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen, directed by Vikraman.she appeared in successful movies like Mutha Mestri , Mugguru Monagallu , Bhairava Dweepam , Bobbili Simham, Annamayya , Anna , Peddannayya, Kshemamga Velli Labamgarandi , Shubhalagnam, Shri Krishnarjuna Vijayam , kalavida , Her 100th movie was Pottu Amman. Roja later appeared in supporting roles in films like Arasu (2003), Parijatham (2006), Shambo Shiva Shambo (2010), Golimar (2010), Mogudu (2011), Kodipunju (2011), Veera (2011), Kaavalan (2011) and Saguni (2012).

She is a top actress in Tamil and Telugu Languages in the 1990s Generation. she acted with almost all top actors like Akkineni nageswar rao,Rajinikanth, Krishna, Shobhan babu, Mohan babu, Sathyaraj, chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Nagarjuna, Venkatesh, jagapatibabu, rajendraprasad, Vinodh kumar, Mammotty, Sreekanth, Karthik, Vijay, Ajith, Prashanth, Prabhudeva,Rajasekhar, Suman, Pruthvi, Naresh, Karthik.

Political career

Roja joined Telugu Desam in 1999 and was the president of the Telugu Mahila wing of the Party.^[7] During the 2009 state elections, she was involved in confrontations and political antics with her rival opposition party leaders, which ultimately led to her defeat for the second consecutive time in the AP state Assembly elections. In August 2009, She quit TDP and joined YSR Congress party. In 2014 general elections, she won as an MLA from Nagari assembly constituency.

Political controversies

Despite R.K. Roja being an active speaker among women MLA's she has been suspended from attending the legislative assembly for one year.^[9][10][11] The decision was taken by majority in the legislative house, on 18 December 2015, and by the approval of the Speaker.^[9][10][11] Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, leader of the opposition, opposed the suspension. There were several concerns on the procedure followed while suspending Roja. Such doubts made the opposition to move no-trust motion against the speaker.^[12] An issue was raised by the opposition party on how the media clipping, property of the house, released and published on social media without the speaker's approval and the speaker also noted their concern and set up an inquiry to probe the issue further and submit a report by next meeting.^[13]

On 11 February 2017, Roja was arrested in Vijayawada for attempting to attend the National Women's Parliament (NWP) in the city, which she was not allowed to attend although she was registered, invited, and was on the NWP's welcoming committee.^[14]

Telugu cinema

Tamil cinema

Malayalam cinema

Kannada cinema