When the octuplets are born, she sternly informs Apu that he cannot pass on until they are out of college. She claims that Fried Green Tomatoes is her favorite book, movie and food. She occasionally works at the Kwik-E-Mart alongside Apu, but she is usually seen as a homemaker. Manjula was arranged to be married to Apu Nahasapeemapetilon when she was three, in which she looked forward to it all her life, but Apu was to set out to the United States for college.
