Jayasudha Kapoor is an Indian film actress predominantly in Telugu Cinema
and a former MLA for the Congress in Secunderabad. She has also worked in
Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and three Hindi films.
Career Jayasudha was born as Sujatha in Madras,
Tamil Nadu on 17 December 1958 to a Telugu-speaking family. Her aunt is
Telugu Cinema actress and director Vijaya Nirmala . Jayasudha made her film
debut when she was twelve years old as Jamuna's daughter in the Telugu film
Pandanti Kapuram. Director K. Balachander gave her a small role in the
Tamil film Arangetram where she shared space with Kamal Haasan. She acted in a
number of films in Telugu and Tamil mostly under Balachander's
direction—Sollathaan Ninaikkiren, Naan Avanillai and Apoorva Raagangal and in
Idi Katha Kaadu with Chiranjeevi . She also changed her name to Jayasudha,
since there was already another actress named Sujatha. Her fame quickly spread,
where Telugu film producers were offering her good film roles.
While her debut role as heroine in the Telugu film Lakshmana Rekha got her
attention, it was really the title role in Jyothi that made her a big star in
Telugu films. She was now called a successor to the great Telugu actress
Savitri and performed many strong roles and showed excellent range. She is given
the title "Sahaja Nati" which means "natural/realistic actress."
Her roles varied from the cute looking teeny bopper who wore minis in Nomu, to
that of a tortured wife of a sadist husband in K. Balachander's film Idi
Katha Kaadu to that of a comedienne who discovers that her husband wants to
murder her for her wealth in Money. She performed showy roles in Telugu remakes
of Hindi films, such as Yugandhar, Illalu).
In commercial cinema, she received a huge break when she starred in Adavi
Ramudu, which broke box office records. She also showed innovativeness and lack
of vanity in original Telugu films like Premabhishekam where she played a
supporting role as a deglamorised prostitute, while Sridevi played the
female lead. She has acted in 225 Telugu films, and
in one year, she had 24 film releases. She accomplished all this, despite her
illiteracy in Telugu, by having people read lines to her and she would remember
and deliver her lines. Noted filmmaker Dasari Narayana Rao repeatedly cast her
in his films. In the film "Idekkadi Nyayam", he used her name in the song
"Andalanni Neelone Dagunnayi. . .Jayasudha," that was picturised on her.
By 1982, she became such a famous actress that Dasari titled a film that
she starred in, Jayasudha, named after her. Her fame also allowed producers to
cast her sister Subhashini in supporting roles in some of the films that she
starred in, such as Sivaranjani, "Doctor Cine-actor" and Meghasandesam.
Subhashini's daughter Pooja is now a budding actress.
Personal life Jayasudha is a granddaughter of eminent
scholar and literary historian, Nidudavolu Venkatarao and Gidugu Krishna
Murthy. She first married Vadde Ramesh in Vijayawada. Deasari Narayana Rao was
instrumental for this marriage. Some how it has not worked and later she married
producer Nitin Kapoor, cousin to actor Jeetendra in 1985 and have two children,
sons Nihar and Shreayan. While she has friends in the industry, such as
Raadhika and Revati, her closest friend is Jayaprada, with whom she had acted in
an number of films such as Adavi Ramudu and Meghasandesam. She was elected as
MLA for Congress from the Secunderabad constituency in 2009 Andhra Pradesh
Assembly elections but lost election and was placed 3rd in the 2014 Telangana
assembly elections. Awards
Filmfare Awards South Filmfare Best Actress Award – Jyothi
Filmfare Best Actress Award – Aame Katha Filmfare Best Actress Award –
Grihapravesam Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award –
Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award –
Kotha Bangaru Lokam Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award -
South Nandi Awards
Nandi Award for Best Actress – Jyothi Nandi Award for Best Actress – Idi Katha
Kaadu Nandi Award for Best Actress –
Premabhishekam Nandi Award for Best Actress –
Meghasandesam Nandi Award for Best Actress –
Dharmaatmudu Other Awards
Kalasagar Award for Best Actress – Meghasandesam
Pride of Indian Cinema Award Andhra Pradesh Cinegoer's Association –
Lifetime Achievement Award ANR National Award
Selected filmography = Tamil =
= Malayalam = Rasaleela
Thiruvonam Romeo
Mohiniyattam Shivathandavam
Sivaranjani Priyadarshini
Jeevikkan Padikkanam Sarovaram
Ishtam = Hindi =
Aaina Shabhash Daddy
Sooryavansham = Kannada =
Nee Thanda Kanike Thayiya Madilu
Vajrakaya = As producer =
Kanchana Sita Kalikalam
Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai Adrustam
Vinta Kodallu Hands Up
References External links
Jayasudha at the Internet Movie Database indu.commp03stories/2006031300200700.htm
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