Veteran Kannada actress B Saroja Devi passed away due to age-related illness at 87 years of age in Bengaluru on Monday. She acted in about 200 films in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada and was popularly known as 'Abhinaya Saraswathi'. Saroja Devi was honoured with Padma Shri in 1969 and Padma Bhushan in 1992. Her debut movie was 'Mahakavi Kalidas'.