Bengaluru, Sept. 2 -- Renowned actresses Jayamala, Shruti and Malavika Avinash on Tuesday met with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

During the meeting, the actresses submitted a request to posthumously confer the Karnataka Ratna award on the late Vishnuvardhan.

They also requested that the Chief Minister name the road in Malleshwaram after the recently deceased multilingual actress B. Saroja Devi.

Saroja Devi passed away in July this year at the age of 87.

Saroja Devi got her big break with her Kannada film Mahakavi Kalidasa (1955). She made her Telugu film debut with Pandurang Mahathyam (1957) and acted in several successful films until the late 1970s.

The Tamil film Nadodi Mannan (1958) established her as one of the top actre...