Her sensitive portrayal of a singer in Sandhya Raga won her critical acclaim and she went on to form a successful romantic pair with Rajkumar. Her first Kannada release was Dudde Doddappafollowed by Love in Bangalore. Vishnuvardhan died on 30 December 2009, aged 59 from cardiac arrest. They have adopted two daughters: Keerthi and Chandana. Vishnuvardhan on 27 February 1975 in Bengaluru. In 1964, photos of her dance performance caught the eye of Kannada actor Kalyan Kumar, who cast her in Love in Bangalore.īharathi married actor Dr. She even represented Karnataka State Level Throw-ball team during her college days. While she was active in both sports and dance, her ambition at the time was to become a basketball player or an athlete. Bharathi studied at Malleswaram Ladies Association (M.L.A) High School and then joined Maharani's Women's Science College in Bengaluru. Ramachandra Rao was a tailor and mother Bhadravathi Bai was a homemaker.
Bharathi was born into a Marathi-speaking family in Bhadravathi on 15 August 1950 in the erstwhile Indian state of Mysore (now Karnataka).
