Depressed, she died due to a kitchen stove-burst on 12th September 1986. 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. The duo fell in love and tied the knot with each other. 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. Manjula met Nirupam Paritala on the sets of her TV serial, Chandramukhi. 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 acted in Kannada, Telugu, and Tamil films. She belonged to a prominent lingayat family, her father Shivanna was a police sub inspector. Kalpana was a successful actress but passed away at the age of 35. Shivanna and Deveramma on 5th April 1951 in Honnenahalli, a village in Tumkur District.

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