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Bharathi Vishnuvardhan is an Indian actress who has performed in Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu language films. She was most seen as a leading actress in the Kannada film industry during the late 1960s to 1980s. Besides these languages, she also featured in Marathi films.

Bharathi was born in a Marathi-speaking family in Karnataka. She was married to the legendary actor of Kannada cinema Vishnuvardhan on 27 February 1975 in Bengaluru. They have two children namely Keerthi and Chandana. Her husband Dr. Vishnuvardhan died on 30 December 2009.

Dr. Bharathi debuted as a second lead actress in the 1964 released film Geet Gaya Patharon Ne. Her first Kannada film was the 1966 romantic comedy Love in Bangalore. She was critically acclaimed for her roles in movies like Runa Muktalu, Bangaaradha Manushya, Doorada Betta, Gandondu Hennaru, Bangaarada Jinke, Avalukendru Oru Manam, Bhagya Jyoti and the Kannada Doordarshan serial Janani.

In 2012, she appeared as a strict, no-nonsense sessions court judge in TN Seetharam\'s Kannada daily serial Mukta-Mukta.

She has acted alongside Dr.Rajkumar, Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Dilip Kumar, ANR, Dr.NTR,Krishnam Raju, Kanta Rao, Dr.Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Manoj Kumar, Jaishankar, V Ravichandran, Shoban Babu, Krishna, Uday Kumar, Kalyan Kumar, R. Muthuraman, AVM.Rajan, Haranath, Sivakumar, Vinod Khanna, Rakesh Roshan, Dr.Ambrish, Ananth Nag, Chalam, Rajesh, Gangadhar, Vinod Mehra and many other popular actors.

Bharathi has acted in a number of Hindi films as well, like director T. Prakash Rao\'s Suraj (1966, starring Vyjayanthimala) and Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani (1970, starring Balraj Sahni), Manoj Kumar\'s Purab Aur Paschim (1970), Prabhat Khanna\'s Uttar Dakshin (1987), Izzatdaar (1990, starring Dilip Kumar), Mehmood\'s Kunwaara Baap (1974), Aao Pyaar Karen (1994, with Saif Ali Khan and Shilpa Shetty), and many more.

Bharathi has acted in various Malayalam films with all leading actors. Though she has not acted mostly as a Heroine, but she is best known for her character roles especially Mother roles with Superstar Mohanlal,most of her films were hits.

In Tamil, she acted as the leading heroine to all three doyens of Tamil film industry in those days: Sivaji Ganesan, M.G. Ramachandran, Gemini Ganesan and R. Muthuraman.

In Telugu cinema field, she has acted in Jai Jawan 1970 and Govula Gopanna 1968, Sipayi Chinnayya and Bangaru Gajulu ( all with Akkineni Nageswara Rao) which were hits.