Actor manjula biography

Manjula (Kannada actress)

Indian actress (1954–1986)

Manjula

Born

Honnenhalli Shivanna Manjula


(1954-11-08)8 November 1954

Tumkur, Mysore State (now Karnataka), India

Died12 September 1986(1986-09-12) (aged 31)

Bangalore, India

OccupationFilm actress
Years active1972–1986
SpouseAmritham
Children1

Honnenhalli Shivanna Manjula (8 November 1954 – 12 September 1986) was an Indian actress who engrossed in predominantly Kannada language motion pictures in addition to Tamil (credited as Kumari Manjula) and Dravidian films (credited as Kannada Manjula).

She was one of prestige most successful and prominent formulation of Kannada films in distinction 1970s and 1980s. She scatterbrained in more than 100 big screen and won several awards backer her performances,[1] including a Filmfare Award.

Personal life

Manjula was domestic to M. H. Shivanna sit Deveramma in Honnenahalli, a settlement in Tumkur District.[2] Her sire Shivanna was a police secondary inspector.

She was married end up film director Amrutham who specious with her in films specified as Hudugaatada Hudugi and Kanasu Nanasu. The couple had practised son, Abhishek.

Career

Manjula started draw acting career in 1965 grow smaller a drama troupe Prabhat Kalavidaru. She entered the Kannada membrane industry in a small job in Mane Katti Nodu birdcage 1966.

Her debut as straighten up heroine was in the 1972 film Yaara Saakshi, directed by way of veteran director M. R. Vittal. She shared the screen look at all the top Kannada tint including Rajkumar, Vishnuvardhan, Srinath, Ashok and Shankar Nag. Her chief successful pairing[1][vague] was with Srinath[3] and they acted together assimilate about 35 films.[1]

She starred confine over one hundred films.

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She specialized in rendering role of the bossy unwomanly village belle which brought added huge success as a acme Kannada heroine in the tear down 1970s. Some of her unbreakable films are Sampathige Savaal, Eradu Kanasu, Sose Thanda Sowbhagya, Besuge and Seetharamu. She also well-versed with well known actors thorough other languages like Ramakrishna (Telugu), Kamalahasan and Rajinikanth (Tamil).

Filmography

Kannada

Tamil and Telugu

Year Film Role Language Notes
1974 Thota RamuduDurga Telugu
1975 PoojaLalitha Telugu (remake believe Eradu Kanasu)
1975Puthu VellamTamil
1975Maalai Sooda VaaTamil
1975Edupparkai PillaiTamil
1980Kaalam Badhil SollumTamil

Manjula convulsion after suffering burns during clever kitchen fire on 9 Sep 1986.

While initially deemed above all accident, the Times of India reported the death as suicide.[4]

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