After her retirement from films in the mid-1980s, she staged a comeback in 2005 as a director with Mithayi Mane which met with critical appreciation and also won her the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children's Film. She has won the Filmfare awards South and the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress four times each. Depressed, she died due to a kitchen stove-burst on 12th September 1986.Aregallu, (near Kushalanagar), Arakalagudu, Karnataka, IndiaĪarathi (born 1954) is an Indian actress who mainly acted in Kannada films during the 1970s and 1980s. The film offers dried up and she had financial difficulties.
Manjula suffered from weight related problems during the early 1980s, while she was at the top of her career, and that ended her career as a romantic actress. She has also acted with other Famous Actors such as Ramakrishna( Telugu), Kamala Haasan and Rajnikanth (Tamil). Some of her notable films are Sampathige Savaal, Durgi, Yeradu Kanasu, Besuge and Seetha Ramu. She has played a variety of roles and most of her films became successful. She starred in over one hundred films during her film career. She has shared screen with south super stars like Rajkumar and Vishnuvardhan and also other prominent actors like Srinath and Shankar Nag and others, but most successful is with Srinath. Her lead actress debut was in the 1972 film Yaara Saakshi, which was directed by veteran director M. She then entered the Kannada film industry in a small role through the film Mane Katti Nodu in 1966.
Manjula started her acting career in 1965 with a drama troupe Prabhat Kalavidaru. The couple had a son, Abhishek, who married Sushma Srinivas, in 2009 and an adopted daughter, Abhinaya. She was married to film director Amritham who worked with her in films such as: Hudugaatada Hudugi, Kanasu Nanasu etc. She belonged to a prominent lingayat family, her father Shivanna was a police sub inspector. Shivanna and Deveramma on 5th April 1951 in Honnenahalli, a village in Tumkur District.
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