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{{infobox person<br />
| name = K. L. V. Vasantha<br />
| image = Vasantha1945.png<br />
| alt = A young Indian woman wearing jewelry on her head, ears, and neck, and a dark sari<br />
| caption = Vasantha, from a 1945 newspaper advertisement for ''Subadra''<br />
| birth_date = 1923<br />
| birth_place = Kundrathur, Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu<br />
| death_date = 2008<br />
| death_place = Chennai, Tamil Nadu<br />
| citizenship = Indian<br />
| occupation = Actress, singer, dancer<br />
| spouse = K. K. Vasu<br />[[T. R. Sundaram]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Kundrathur L. V. Vasantha''' (1923–2008) was an Indian actress, singer and dancer who worked mainly in [[Tamil language]] films.<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/remembering-vasantha/article1433352.ece |title=Remembering Vasantha |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=29 February 2008 |access-date=14 November 2016 |last=Guy |first=Randor |author-link=Randor Guy}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Vasantha was born in 1923 in [[Kundrathur]], then based in [[Ramanathapuram district]]. As a young girl, she was actively involved in singing and dancing. According to actress [[S. D. Subbulakshmi]], Vasantha played in a minor, uncredited role in ''[[Pavalakkodi (1934 film)|Pavalakkodi]]'' (1934). After becoming a teenager, she appeared in B. N. Rao's ''Rambaiyin Kaathal'' (1939), a box-office success that catapulted Vasantha into stardom. Rao later cast her in ''Bhooloka Ramba'' (1940), also a hit.<ref name="thehindu" /><br />
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When [[Gemini Studios]] opened in 1941, Vasantha portrayed the lead female character in its debut production ''[[Madanakamarajan]]'', financed by Gemini founder [[S. S. Vasan]]. The success of this film further enhanced Vasantha's reputation. When Vasan planned ''[[Chandralekha (1948 film)|Chandralekha]]'' in 1943, he announced that Vasantha would star as the lead female, but she was eventually replaced by [[T. R. Rajakumari]]. Vasantha shifted to Salem where she joined [[T. R. Sundaram]]'s [[Modern Theatres]], and played the female lead in many of Sundaram's films such as ''Rajarajeswari'' (1944), ''[[Burma Rani]]'' (1945) and ''Sulochana'' (1947).<ref name="thehindu" /><br />
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Vasantha was already an accomplished dancer and singer, so she did both in most of her films. Her dance-drama sequence in ''Madanakamarajan'' became notable. In 1946, she played the lead roles in two Modern Theatres films: the Wahab Kashmiri-directed ''Chitra'' which was not successful, and ''Subhadhra''. After acting in a few more films, she returned to [[Chennai]] (then known as Madras) and lived there till her death in 2008.<ref name="thehindu" /><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Vasantha married producer K. N. Vasu,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sri Kantha |first=Sachi |author-link=Sachi Sri Kantha |date=25 April 2017 |title=MGR Remembered – Part 38 {{!}} Testimony of producer K.N. Vasu |url=https://sangam.org/mgr-remembered-part-38/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023151123/https://sangam.org/mgr-remembered-part-38/ |archive-date=23 October 2021 |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=[[Ilankai Tamil Sangam]]}}</ref> following the death of her husband T.R.Sundaram (1907-1963), the founder of Modern Theatres in Salem.<ref>{{Cite web |title=... And thus he made Chandralekha sixty years ago |url=http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2018%20No%2017/and_thus_he_made_chandralekha_sixty_years_ago.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524070957/http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2018%20No%2017/and_thus_he_made_chandralekha_sixty_years_ago.html |archive-date=24 May 2013 |access-date=14 November 2016 |website=[[Madras Musings]]}}</ref><br />
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==Partial filmography==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Year !! Film<br />
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| 1939 || ''Rambaiyin Kaathal''<br />
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| 1940 || ''[[Satyavaani]]''<br />
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| 1941 || ''[[Madanakamarajan]]''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Guy |first=Randor |date=8 October 2009 |title=Madanakamarajan (1941) |work=[[The Hindu]] |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/Madanakamarajan-1941/article16885488.ece |access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 1944 || ''[[Raja Rajeswari (film)|Raja Rajeswari]]''<br />
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| 1945 || ''[[Burma Rani]]''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Baskaran |first=S. Theodore |author-link=S. Theodore Baskaran |date=6 October 2006 |title=War relic |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-culture/cinema/article30211050.ece |access-date=23 October 2021 |website=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]]}}</ref><br />
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| 1946 || ''[[Subathra]]''<br />
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| 1947 || ''Sulochana''<br />
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|}<br />
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[[Category:1923 births]]<br />
[[Category:2008 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian film actresses]]<br />
[[Category:Indian female dancers]]<br />
[[Category:Actresses in Tamil cinema]]<br />
[[Category:Indian women playback singers]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil-language playback singers]]<br />
[[Category:People from Ramanathapuram district]]<br />
[[Category:Singers from Tamil Nadu]]<br />
[[Category:Dancers from Tamil Nadu]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian dancers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian actresses]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian women singers]]<br />
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