Kumari Rukmani (19 April 1929 – 4 September 2007), also known as Kumari Rukmini, was an Indian actress and dancer. She has acted in about 100 films in

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languages.

Childhood

She is the daughter of Nungambakkam Janaki, also an actress. She hails from Melattur in

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. During the shooting of ''

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'' (1932) in

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) the producers were looking for a young actor to feature as ''Lohidasan''. Kumari Rukmani, as a child, was staying with her parents in the next room where T. P. Rajalakshmi who was the female lead in the film, was staying. Rajalakshmi recommended Kumari Rukmani to the producers. The producers talked to the parents and made Kumari Rukmani to feature as ''Lohidasan'' in the film. Thus began her film career.
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Film career

She featured in many films together with T. P. Rajalakshmi. Her first film as heroine was Sri Valli in which she acted as Valli paired with T. R. Mahalingam. In 1946 she featured in

Lavangi ''Lavangi'' is a 1946 Indian Tamil-language film directed and produced by Y. V. Rao and written by P. R. Narayanan. It stars Y. V. Rao, Kumari Rukmani, B. R. Panthulu, B. Jayamma, K. Sarangapani, K. R. Chellam and T. R. Ramachandran. The ...

paired with the multi-talented Y. V. Rao. While the shooting of this film was going on both she and Rao fell in love with each other and later got married. Cine actress

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Partial filmography

Producer

She has produced two films in Hindi, with Lavangi and Manjari.

Death

After ailing for some time, Kumari Rukmani died on 4 September 2007 at her daughter actress

residence in Chennai.

K. T. Rukmini

There was another actress/singer named K. T. Rukmini during 1930/40s. She was featured in films like ''

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'' (1935), ''Thirumangai Alwar'' (1940) and her last film was ''Ponnuruvi'' (1947).

References

External links

* * * - A song sung by Kumari Rukmani from the film Ramadas (1948) * - A song sung by K. T. Rukmini (with

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