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Anjali Devi (born 24 August 1927) is a veteran Telugu actress and producer. She is well known for her mythological role as Sita in Lava Kusha and roles in movies like Suvarna Sundari and Anarkali . She hails from Peddapuram, East Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh state, India, and later settled in Chennai. She was a theater artist before entering into movies. Her film debut was as Lohitasya in Raja Harishchandra in 1936. Her first movie as heroine was Kashtajeevi by L. V. Prasad. She eventually acted in more than 350 Telugu films and also in a few Tamil and Kannada films as the heroine. She married P. Adinarayana Rao, a music director, in 1948. Together they produced many Telugu films under the banner of Anjali Pictures. She acted in Lava Kusha , a milestone film and the first color film in the Telugu film industry in 1963. She acted in various roles like damsel, angel, dancer, demon, goddess, traditional woman and later in mother characters. Her granddaughter Saila Rao...