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Her first lead role was in Rickshawkaran (1971) and it gave her big break to Tamil movies. She first appeared in the film Shanthi Nilayam (1969) in a supporting role where Gemini Ganeshan was the leading actor. She died on 23 July 2013 in SRMC at Chennai after falling down from bed and the whole industry still mourns over the unexpected death of this actress who was at her late 50’s. She was married to actor Vijayakumar and their daughters Sridevi Vijayakumar and Preetha are actresses of south India. Apart from Tamil, she has also acted in other south Indian languages and during 90’s she concentrated most on supporting and negative roles in film industry. She starred opposite MGR in the super hit movie ‘Rickshawkaaran’ which gave National award for best actor for M. She was one among those lucky stars who got opportunity to work opposite MGR and Sivaji Ganesan as leading actress in the super hit movies of 70’s. Some of her notable films include Sampathige Savaal, Durgi, Yeradu Kanasu, Besuge and Seetha Ramu.Manjula Vijayakumar was a south Indian actress who concentrated most on Tamil movies.

She has starred in over one hundred films during her film career, where she played variety of roles and most of her films became successful. She paired up with most prominent Kannada actors like Rajkumar, Vishnuvardhan, Srinath and Shankar Nag, but most successful is with Srinath, they acted together in about 35 films. She made her debut as a lead actress in the film Yaara Saakshi, the film released in 1972 and it 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, The film was directed by Sri Sadguru. Career : Manjula started her acting career in 1965 with a drama troupe Prabhat Kalavidaru. Abhisekh was married in 2009 to Sushma Srinivas. She was married to film director Amritham who had directed her in films like Hudugaatada Hudugi, the couple have one son Abhisekh and one adopted daughter Abhinaya. She belonged to a prominent lingayat family, her father Shivanna was a police sub inspector. Personal life : Manjula was born in a Honenahalli, a village in Tumkur district on 5 April 1951 to Shivanna and Deveramma.

She was one of the most successful and prominent actress of Kannada films. Manjula (Kannada: ಮಂಜುಳ) (5 April 1951) was an Indian film actress who acted in Kannada language films.
