“The women among them often choose to end their life,” Velu adds. He says that they are sensitive and hesitate to share their feelings. It’s not enough to get to the top, staying there is the challenge,” Velu says. “Artistes without any film background, who reach the top through hard work alone, suffer at different levels. Lahari Recording company’s Lahari Velu, who is also an actor, views the death of youngsters with caution. Each of them would have enriched cinema in their own way had they lived on,” he says.

Ramesh Aravind believes that to ponder over the ‘ifs’ is to look at an infinite number of doors that cannot be opened. While it is purely speculative to wonder how the industry could have changed had these people lived on, it is a necessary and inevitable question. A few chose suicide after struggling with financial, health or personal issues. Some were killed in accidents, while others succumbed to health issues. Depressed, she died due to a kitchen stove-burst on 12th September 1986.The untimely demise of the promising young actor Chiranjeevi Sarja at the age of 39 has revived memories of the talents whose contributions to the Kannada film industry were cut short too early. 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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