She used to watch the movies of entertainer and producer Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran (M.G.R.) and that roused her to seek after a vocation in acting. Her sister and father upheld her fantasies about turning into an entertainer.

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Kovai Sarala was in ninth grade when she was offered her first film job in the film Velli Ratham.

At the point when she was in tenth norm, she was given a role as Arukkani, a 32-year-old pregnant lady, in the 1983 Tamil-language rom-com film Mundhanai Mudichu.

She assumed the part of Venkamma, Annavaram’s significant other, in the 2000 Telugu film Rayalaseema Ramanna Chowdary and this job won Kovai Sarala a Nandi Award in the “Best Female Comedian” class.

She was projected in the 2003 Telugu film Ori nee Prema Bangaram Kanu. This again won her a Nandi Award for “Best Female Comedian”.

In 2011, Kovai Sarala co-featured as Sarala, Raghava’s mom, in the Tamil-language awfulness parody film Kanchana (otherwise called Muni 2: Kanchana). This job won her the Vijay Award for “Best Female Comedian”.

She has filled in as an ordinary visitor judge on the Sun TV Tamil-language stand-up parody unscripted TV drama Asatha Povathu Yaaru? also as an adjudicator on the Vijay TV Tamil satire show Comedyil Kalakkuvathu Eppadi as well as on the Zee Tamil parody show Varuthapadatha valibar sangam.

Close by Prabhu Deva, Tamannaah, Nandita Swetha, and Dimple Hayathi, Kovai Sarala co-featured as Lawyer Lalitha in the 2019 Tamil-language parody blood and gore movie Devi 2, a continuation of the 2016 film Devi.

She has been a piece of Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam, an ideological group.