She won the National Award for Best Actress for Pasi at the young age on 17 – such a sad loss of talent at a tender age when she couldn’t cope with the pulls and pressures of stardom and personal life. She had quite a few popular Tamil songs to her credit – Poonthenil Kalanthu and Yenunga Maapillai (Ennipadigal), Poovannam (Azhiyatha Kolangal), Senthazham Poovil and Adi Penne (Mullum Malarum), Yen Iniya Pon Nilavae (Moodu Pani) readily come to one’s mind. Her characters such as Valli in Mullum Malarum, Indumathi Teacher in Azhiyatha Kolangal have stood the test of time. She was a natural in emoting the characters on-screen and often noticed for a bright, cheerful smile. She was unconventional in her looks and in her movie choices as well. She worked across the South Indian movie industry and did films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. Shobha was a very successful and popular star. Lucky in reel life, she was rather unlucky in real life and decided to end it all. Shobha made these transitions with ease and was at the peak of her movie career when she died. Young n Talented actress – Shobha Image Courtesy – hotnsourmoviechannel Often successful child stars fail to transition to being stars when they re-launch themselves as adults. Talented actresses too have had to struggle till they got a breakthrough movie and established themselves.
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