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She is the only among the children of the veteran actor who has not acted in films. Vijayakumar's eldest daughter Anitha is married to Gokulakrishnan a doctor since 1997 and has settled in London with two grown-up children. His son Arun Vijay is now a leading action hero and daughters Kavitha, Vanitha, Preetha and Sreedevi also acted as heroines in many films.Īnitha, Kavitha and Arun Vijay are the children of Vijayakumar and his first wife Muthukannu while Vanitha, Preetha and Sreedevi are his children with his late second wife actress Manjula. She died from a kitchen stove-burst on 12 September 1986.Veteran actor Vijayakumar was one of the leading young heroes in seventies during the Rajini-Kamal era and later switched on character and villain roles and has done more than 400 films. She also acted with well known actors in other languages like Ramakrishna (Telugu), Kamalahasan and Rajinikanth (Tamil).įilmography Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam Yearįilmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada Some of her notable films are Sampathige Savaal, Eradu Kanasu, Sose Thanda Sowbhagya, Besuge and Seetharamu. She specialized in the role of the bossy tomboyish village belle which brought her huge success as a top Kannada heroine in the late 1970s. Her most successful pairing was with Srinath and they acted together in about 35 films. She shared screen with Kannada actors including Rajkumar, Vishnuvardhan, Srinath, Ashok and Shankar Nag. Her debut as a heroine was in the 1972 film Yaara Saakshi, directed by veteran director M. She entered the Kannada film industry in a small role in Mane Katti Nodu in 1966. Manjula started her acting career in 1965 with a drama troupe Prabhat Kalavidaru.

She was married to film director Amrutham who worked with her in films such as Hudugaatada Hudugi and Kanasu Nanasu. family, her father Shivanna was a police sub inspector.

Shivanna and Deveramma in Honnenahalli, a village in Tumkur District. She acted in more than 100 films and won several awards for her performances, including a Filmfare Award. She was one of the most successful and prominent actresses of Kannada films in 1970s and 1980s. Manjula ( Kannada: ಮಂಜುಳ) (8 November 1954 – 12 September 1986) was an Indian film actress who acted in Kannada language films and also few Tamil (credited as Kumari Manjula) and Telugu films.