Aarathi is an Indian actress turned director who works predominantly in Kannada language movies. She is satisfactorily recognized for her acting prowess in many author-sponsored girl-centric roles during the Seventies and 1980s. After her self-declared retirement from movies in the late 1980s, she again as a director with Mithayi Mane (2005) which met with vital appreciation and additionally gained the Karnataka nation film Award for great kid's film.
Aarathi is an Indian actress and manufacturer of Kannada films.
The movie Mithayi Mane gained the best children's movie award for the yr 2004-2005 issued by the government of Karnataka. She has acted in Tamil films like Gumasthavin Magal. She has also acted as a heroine along with Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan in which they acted like villains in the respective movies.
She does an outstanding deal of charity work. She turned into the second one wife of Puttanna Kanagal. She left the film industry in 1987, and married to Chandrashekar Desaigoudar, and moved to the united states. She has lived in the united states of America ever considering the fact that and has two daughters.
As director
- 2005 / Mithayi Mane / Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children film
- 2019 / Kumbalangi Nights / Malayalam
- 2020 / C U Soon / Malayalam
