Actress Bhanumathi passes away

Veteran Tamil film actor and danseuse M.Bhanumathy passed away on Monday evening at a private hospital in Chennai. Bhanumathy who had acted in more than hundreds of films in Tamil and some Tamil television serials was suffering from jaundice and had been under treatment for more than a month. When the health condition of the actress deteriorated she was rushed to a private hospital for treatment, but she died at the hospital.

M.Bhanumathy has done her role with the Late Actor Sivaji Ganesan in Thillana Mohanambal in a nurse role which had fetched her name.She has acted in Thiru Neelgandar, Mayangugiral Oru Madhu, Vietnam Veedu, Kadhal Jothi and several other films numbering more than 100 films.

The actress had a beautiful voice with which she delivered dialogues either in films or in tv serials and stage performances."One could easily visualize the scene of her by closing eyes with the voice of the late actress alone," says one of her fans. The actress had attracted a lot of audience with her delivery of dialogues with her metallic voice, which normally would fetch good name for singers alone.

A TV serial Associate Director who had long standing experience in direction,said that Bhanumathy never undertook trouble for memorizing  dialogues, she used to go through the dialogues twice or thrice and would be ready for shots. According to the director he had never seen her missing even a single word when she stood before cameras. " She was always spontaneous and had the self-confidence of acting in any roles assigned to her", says the Associate Director.

She had done meaty roles in Abhinaya Cretions mega-serial, Thiruppavai and Anu Pallavi. The actor was acting for the Vellai Thamarai, the mega-serial now being telecast through the Sun TV Channel.

The actress was living with her only daughter Lakshmi. The funeral of the actress will be taking place on Tuesday.