Reportedly, her kids visited their grandparents' house to celebrate Diwali and when she went there to take them back, her father and brother assaulted her.

Vanitha landed into a controversy when she filed a case against her parents and brother for assaulting her when she tried to take back her children to her home.

When she did not return her daughter after the court's deadline, the court gave Jaynitha's full custody to her father. Her debut as a heroine was in the 1972 film Yaara Saakshi, directed by veteran director M. She entered the Kannada film industry in a small role in Mane Katti Nodu in 1966.

But, in the first week of April 2017, Vanitha did not return her daughter to her ex-husband for the entire week. Career Manjula started her acting career in 1965 with a drama troupe Prabhat Kalavidaru. When Vanitha got divorced from her second husband, the court decided that their daughter, Jaynitha, would stay with her father on the weekdays and with her mother on the weekend. In 2017, Vanitha was alleged to kidnap her own daughter, Jaynitha.She later alleged that she and her crew member were badly beaten by the police personnel and thrown out of the house. Vijaykumar claimed to be the owner of the house and filed a case against Vanitha in Maduravoyal’s local police station for not vacating the house.

She further added that her father has even stopped her from going to the shoots. According to her, she had been staying at her mother's house since her mother's death and now her father is asking her to vacate the house. The actress who was suffering from weight issues quit her movie career, which led to financial. In 2018, Vanitha got into a legal feud with her father over the family property issue. Manjula has shared screen space with stars like Rajkumar, Vishnuvardhan, Shankar Nag, and others.Vanitha revealed during an interview that she is soon going to marry Robert. She even said that her father had exploited her mother in the influence of alcohol and had transferred all her assets to his son Arun Vijay’s name. Tamil Film: Chandralekha (1995) Malayalam Film: Hitler Brothers (1997) Telugu Film: Devi (1999) As a Producer: MGR Sivaji Rajini Kamal (2015) Vanitha alleged that her father, Vijayakumar, married her mother, Manjula, only because her mother belonged to a rich family.

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