Kovai Sarala

Acting

Kovai Sarala

Born 1962-04-07 · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Kovai Sarala is an Indian Film actress and Comedian, who prominently plays supporting roles in Tamil and Telugu films. In a career spanning 25 years, Sarala has appeared in over 750 films. She has won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Comedian and the Nandi Award for Best Female Comedian for her performances in Poovellam Un Vasam (2001), and Ori Nee Prema Bangaram Kanu (2003), respectively. She got her first film offer when she was in the 9th standard and acted with Vijayakumar and K. R. Vijaya in the film Velli Ratham. She was in Class 10, when she played a 32-year-old pregnant woman Mundhanai Mudichu, her second film. Two years later she acted in Chinna Veedu, where she played the role of the 65-year-old mother of Bhagyaraj's character. She has appeared in more than a 100 films in Telugu. She has mentioned the films Sathi Leelavathi, Viralukketha Veekkam, Varavu Ettana Selavu Pathana, Karagattakaran and Viswanathan Ramamoorthy as her personal favourites.

Acting credits

Lucky the Superstar poster
2.3

A stray puppy's adventure transforms lives: helping a child heal, bringing a family together, and causing political mayhem while finding her way home.

Lucky the Superstar

2026

Bhairava Dweepam poster
7.3

A boy is raised by a village chieftain after his mother loses him in the woods. As time passes and he grows up, he falls in love with a princess who is under the spell of a witch and decides to save her

Bhairava Dweepam

1994

Dharmam Vellum poster
10.0

Saradha, a single mother, kills 13 people in an abandoned circuit house and is sentenced to death. Her son, Vijay, grows up to be a police officer and sets out to solve the mystery behind her actions.

Dharmam Vellum

1989

Kanchana 4 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kanchana 4

Sathi Leelavathi poster
7.5

Arun, a married man, has an affair with Priya as he dislikes his wife Leelavathi, who is plain-looking and overweight. When she discovers Arun's affair, she plots with Dr. Sakthivel to win Arun back.

Sathi Leelavathi

1995

Champion poster
6.8

An aspiring football star desperately seeks a way to travel to England to play for a famous team, but his journey leads him to a village waging a bloody conflict.

Champion

2025

Badrinath poster
3.8

Trained by a religious martial arts guru, Badri becomes the protector of Badrinath temple and tries to revive Alakananda's faith in God, unaware of the fact that she has fallen for him.

Badrinath

2011

Mersal poster
7.3

A few individuals in the medical profession are murdered or kidnapped, and the cop investigating the case suspects a doctor and arrests him. But is he the one who is behind these crimes? And why are they being committed?

Mersal

2017

No artwork available
8.0

A rich man, gets fed up of his gambling brother and his spoilt son, Vijay. Upon his death, his son and brother learn that the property will be inherited by Rakayi, a poor girl, if she marries Vijay.

Sakkarai Panthal

1988

Adhisaya Manithan poster
8.0

A sequel to NALAI MANITHAN set five years after the events of that film. The killer is resurrected and goes after seven teenagers in a house.

Adhisaya Manithan

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pudhiya Raagam

1991

Kanguva poster
3.8

A bounty hunter in present day, learns about his previous life as a legendary warrior, when fate unites him with a mutant kid.

Kanguva

2024

Kumbakarai Thangaiah poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kumbakarai Thangaiah

1991

Seetha Payanam poster
4.0

Chef Seetha survives an accident and seeks to thank her saviors. She falls for stranger Abhishek, who hides a secret. When truth surfaces, she must choose between love, honesty, and her future.

Seetha Payanam

2026

Ottesi Cheputunna poster
6.0

Film starring Srikanth, Sravanthi, Sivaji

Ottesi Cheputunna

2003

Thirumathi Palanisamy poster
NR

Hamsaveni, a teacher, agrees to marry an illiterate man on the condition that she will stay with her ailing father after marriage. However, on the wedding night, he refuses to comply with her terms.

Thirumathi Palanisamy

1992

No artwork available
NR

Raja has a conflict with the powerful Dhamalingam, who in turn ruins his sister's life. To atone for the sins of her father, Dhamalingam's daughter marries Raja.

Raaja Raajathan

1989

Devudu Chesina Manushulu poster
4.0

The movie opens with Lord Vishnu (Bramhanandam) trying to pacify Lakshmi Devi (Kovai Sarala), who is quite disappointed after listening to words of Narada that Lord Vishnu didn't gave any present to Lakshmi Devi on the eve of her Birthday (Akshaya Tritiya). Lord Vishnu shows a love story between 2 orphans Ravi Teja (Ravi Teja), a settlement broker in Hyderabad and Ileana (Ileana D'Cruz), a taxi driver living in Bangkok.

Devudu Chesina Manushulu

2012

Pathavi Pramanam poster
NR

The film begins with Siva escaping from jail, Siva is a convict who failed to kill the politician R. K. twice. At the transfer of power, R. K. will take oath as the new chief minister of Tamil Nadu, so he deploys heavy security to protect him from Siva. Before that, Siva manages to kidnap R. K. and hauled him to a television station. Siva tells his past to the audience and the reason behind the kidnapping.

Pathavi Pramanam

1994

Maareesan poster
7.0

A petty thief embarks on a road trip with an elderly man suffering from memory loss under deceptive pretenses. As they journey across Tamil Nadu, the promise of an easy con unravels into a quietly shifting connection, with both men hiding secrets of their own.

Maareesan

2025

Chinna Veedu poster
7.3

Gopal marries Bhagyalakshmi, a plain and unsophisticated woman, at his father's behest. However, when he meets Banu, he gets attracted to her without realising her true motives.

Chinna Veedu

1985

No artwork available
NR

Rambabu, a rich heir, falls in love with Mythili, a dancer, but she does not reciprocate. However, he soon learns a dark secret about his birth and reinvents himself to win Mythili over.

Kunthi Putrudu

1993

Ellame En Pondattithaan poster
NR

Ramki moves to the city to stay at his aunty Radhika's house. Radhika is married to Manivannan, a politician, who forces Radhika to nominate herself for the regional MLA position. Radhika initially refuses the chance but later gets convinced by her nephew to stand in the elections. She later becomes a MLA and wants to help and serve the people. On the other hand, her husband wants to take bribes, misuse power and become rich.

Ellame En Pondattithaan

1998

Thalaivan poster
4.0

As the state's cops eliminate the underlings of Daniel, one of the masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, there comes a challenger — Thalaivan, who starts committing crimes under their noses. Who is this mysterious man and what is his objective?

Thalaivan

2014

Behind the camera