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In a YouTube interview, Frankly with TNR, she said she was exonerated by the court of chargers as they were false allegations. Yamuna was arrested for her alleged involvement in a brothel racket in the ITC Royal Gardenia, a five star hotel, in January 2011 in Bangalore. She appeared in the TV series Anveshitha which was broadcast on ETV. After the break she started acting in TV serials. Īfter her marriage, she took a break from acting. She also acted in Kannada films with Siva Rajkumar and Ravichandran. She was also played the lead actress in 1990 film Erramandaram. In the 1990 film Puttinti Pattu Cheera, she played the role of an unlucky daughter who is harassed by her in-laws. Later she played one of the leads opposite Vinod Kumar in another successful film Mamagaru. Yamuna played the role of Durga who is betrayed by a government officer and fights for her conjugal rights, seeking marital recognition to give proper identity to her illegitimate child. She shot into fame in 1989 with award-winning Telugu film Mouna Poratam which is based on the real-life story of Sabita Badhei, which gained massive media coverage. She acted in over 50 Kannada and Telugu movies as the female lead. Yamuna made her debut in film in a lead role through Kannada film Modada Mareyalli (1989) alongside Shiva Rajkumar.
Director Balachander changed her name to Yamuna after film debut.
Their native is Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh but her family later moved to Bangalore. Yamuna was born as Prema in Bangalore, Karnataka into a Telugu-speaking family.