'Silk' Smitha, the dreamy-eyed enchantress of southern cinema for over a decade, had a tiff with her loverboy. 'Fatafet' was involved with a nephew of then Chief Minister, M G Ramachandran, while Kumari Padmini is believed to haveīeen an acquaintance of a judicial officer of the time. The last ended her life after a marred surgery left her crippled. Then followed 'Fatafet' Jayalakshmi, Kalpana, Lakshmishree, Kumari Padmini, Vijayashree, 'Silk' Smita and 'Kozhi-koovuthu' Viji. Her entrappings with the much-married filmmaker of repute, Balu Mahendra, ended in her suicide. It began with 'Urvashi' Shobha, National Award-winner. More important, Monal is not the first of film actresses to have ended their lives so very drastically over the last two decades. Her last two films were Pammal K Sambandham (with Kamal Haasan) and Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Mutthamittal (with Madhavan). Simran was away in Canada with Kamal Haasan, shooting for their next movie, Panchatantram. What has drawn attention to Monal's suicide is the fact that she is the sister of Simran, the reigning star in the Tamil film industry. Monal was also to have attended the New Year mahurat of her new film, Paiye Janmam. Also, Monal's mother Veena is believed to have been asking her for money, after elder sister Simran broke ties and became independent.Ĭoincidentally, Charlie Chaplin, her last outing, ends with Monal's character taking her life.

The actress hung herself from the ceiling. Apparently, it was after a telephonic tiff with loverboy Prasanna, a dance assistant. On Sunday, April 14 - the Tamil New Year Day - Monal, the 22-year-old actress with four films to her name committed suicide. He cited the two politicians par excellence from Tamil Nadu to drive home their ardent connections with the Tamil film world through thick and thin - and their own personal ups and downs. This was an honest plea for upcoming artistes to be fair to themselves by Vijaykanth, ageing Tamil filmstar and president of the South Indian Film Artistes' Association. Likewise, all actresses should take a leaf out of the fight-back spirit of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief Minister Jayalalitha.' ' All male artistes should learn their lessons in courage from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) supremo Karunanidhi.

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