Actor Manjula dead
july 23,2013 current affair
Yesteryear actor Manjula Vijayakumar, 59, who paired with major heroes,
including M.G. Ramachandran, died here on Tuesday, following a brief
illness.
The actor, who made her first screen appearance as a child artist in
‘Shanthi Nilayam,’ was recently admitted to a private hospital, Sri
Ramachandra Medical Centre, here for treatment after a fall. Her health
took a turn for the worse when she lost consciousness on Tuesday
morning, and died just a couple of months short of her 60th birthday.
She was born on September 9, 1953.
Her role as Gemini Ganesan’s teenaged daughter in ‘Shanthi Nilayam’, the
Tamil film industry’s adaptation of Sound of Music, marked her debut.
This was in 1969. Only two years later, she got her big break, when she
was chosen to play the heroine beside MGR in the 1971 blockbuster
‘Rickshawkaran’. That was a grand re-entry into the world of films, and
one that ensured that this star was on the ascendant for the nearly the
next 10 years.
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