![]() ![]() She was also offered a Kannada film with the acclaimed director Sunil Kumar Desai. She had to give up singing “professionally due to a tiny accident where my vocal chords were damaged,” reveals the actor, who has many umpteen concerts to her credit nationally and internationally. He suggested that I act in a film as he felt I had an expressive face and voice.” Manasi now runs a dance school, Nrityaniketana Kodavoor, with her husband, Sudhir Rao Kodavoor, an eminent Bharatnatya and Yakshagana artiste. Jayant Kaikini is my father’s friend and I was asked to sing at a programme where he was present in Mangaluru. Soon, she was a trained artiste, giving Carnatic vocal concerts and performing Bharatanatya. “My father was into literature, and encouraged me to take to performing arts alongside my studies.”
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