As her visibility grew, Telugu film offers came to but only for small roles. The film became a hit, and she was offered more Kannada and Tamil films. He offered Ratna the lead role in his Kannada film, and she took it despite her mother's initial objections. In the audience was a Kannada film director, who thought she resembled actress Savithri Ganesh, then the top female star in South India. When she was 12 years old, she participated in a dance function at her school. While her older sister did well enough to go onto college, Ratna's interest wasn't in her studies, but only in her bharat natyam dancing class. She sent young Ratna and her older sister to Andhra Mahila Sabha in Madras to be educated. Her mother kept a farm and sold goats milk to support the family. When her father was dying, he told her mother to give young Ratna and her older sister a good education before marriage. Her early life was marred with tragic losses: three members of her family, including her father, died of tuberculosis in a span of one month. Vanisri was born as Ratna Kumari in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India in 1948.
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