Legendary Actress, Singer Aachi Manorama Passed away due to heart attack. she had acted in over 1000+ Tamil films and acted with top stars like MGR and Sivaji Ganesan.she also acted in 1000+ stage dramas and also in some TV serials. her original name is Gopishantha, better known by her stage name Manorama, also called Aachi. the whole tamil film industry was schoked. a huge loss to the tamil film industry. She did versatile roles which many actress of today would dare to even try.
Aachi Manorama who started her career as an artist from stage to Film. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2002. She won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Pudhiya Pathai in 1989.She was the recipient of the Kalaimamani award by the government of Tamil Nadu. She holds a Guinness World Record for acting more than 1000 number of films. Cho Ramaswamy claimed on the Tamil TV show Koffee with Anu that he was the first one to call Manorama the female Sivaji Ganesan: He admired her for her versatility and the ability to surprise with her performances.
She fell in love with her manager in the drama troup S.M. Ramanathan and got married in 1964. The couple have a son called Bhoopathi. She got divorced from S.M. Ramanathan in late 1966. Currently, she used to reside in a separate house at chennai. She had acted in small roles in few Vairam nataka sabha dramas. Once she went to see a drama of S.S. Rajendran who was in residence at Pudukkotai, in Tamil Nadu, and was introduced to him by P.A. Kumar. She showed her skill in dialogue delivery and was offered a job in S.S.R Nataka Mandram company and played in hundreds of stage productions all over the district: The dramas included Manimagudam, Thenpandiveeran and Pudhuvellam. She credits her work in Manimagudam as where she was first recognised as an actress, She then took part in an unfinished film starring S. S. Rajendran and Devika.
She had been in films with five chief ministers of Andhra and Tamil Nadu. She had played the female lead in the plays written, directed and acted by C. N. Annadurai, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu. She had also appeared in plays with another chief minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi. She had acted in films with M. G. Ramachandran and Jayalalitha Jayaram who both later became chief ministers of Tamil Nadu later. She had also acted in Telugu films with Dr. N. T. Rama Rao, who became the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.