Veteran South Indian actor B Saroja Devi, the first superstar of Kannada cinema who went onto act in about 200 films in different languages, died here on Monday. She was 87. She died due to age-related ailments at her residence in Malleswaram, Bengaluru. According to film industry sources, she was found unconscious at her residence and was rushed to a hospital nearby, where she was declared brought dead. The doe eyed beauty, who made her debut when she was 17-years-old in a Kannada film, ‘Mahakavi Kalidasa' (1955), went on to become a legend in not just Kannada, but also Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. She has acted in about 200 films. However, it was in Tamil cinema that she shone the brightest, particularly alongside M G Ramachandran (MGR), the iconic Tamil superstar and former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, who considered her his ‘lucky mascot’.