Except Preeta, the other two have worked in Malayalam movies also.She went to Goodwill’s Girls School in Bangalore for her early education. All the three daughters are film stars as well – Vanita, Preeta and Sreedevi. She was married to famous Tamil actor Vijayakumar and have three daughters.
In short, she has played a significant role in the success of all these movies.ĭuring yesterdays, she was a popular star among youth and has worked in all south Indian languages.
Alongside Mamooty, she has acted in Inspector Balram and Jackpot and both are mega blockbusters. First one was mega blockbuster Abhimanyu where she played villain’s role with name ‘Madam’. It’s widely believed that due to personal indifferences with co-star Lata, MGR uplifted Manjula’s career and she has acted alongside Jaya Shankar and Muthuraman too. Kundukili is the only movie where Sivaji and MGR acted together and Manjula acted as the bridge between these two. ‘Malare kurinji malare’ is still a popular duet pairing these two great actors. Dr.Siva and Enkal Thanka raasa were the major hits. Manjula has delivered a few hits with Sivaji Ganesan too. When Vaali, Soundar Rajan and Kannadasan formed a group, it gave birth to many memorable songs as well. Thus Manjula became overnight star.Īpart from Rickshawkaran, Manjula has been successfully paired with MGR in 4 more movies – Ninaythathu mudippavan, Ulakam chuttum vaalipan and Anpe aaruyire. When Malayali director Sethu Madhavan directed this movie in Tamil, this movie broke several collection records in the year 1971.
It was for the brilliant performance in Rickshawkaran that MGR won National awards. But it was through the movie ‘Rikshawkaran’ opposite MGR that Manjula reached stardom. Later she became the heroine of Gemini in many movies. She started her film career in 1969 with the movie ‘Shanti Nilayam’ as the daughter of Gemini Ganesan, fondly called ‘Kathal Mannan’. Manjula’s brief introduction to Malayalam is through three super hit movies.
Manjula has been active in the industry for three decades. She died at a comparatively younger age of 58 when the ‘show has not ended yet’. She has acted alongside many leading heroes of yesterdays of whom M.G. Vaali passed away on July 18 and Manjula died on Jfollowing a brief illness. First one to go was lyricist Vaali and now it’s Manjula. In a short gap, two great personalities have faded away. It’s a bit shocking to Tamil movie industry.
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