Jayanthi

Jayanthi

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Jayanthi Profile

  • Name:
  • Jayanthi
  • Other Name:
  • Kamala Kumari
  • Born:
  • October 11, 1945
  • Father:
  • Balasubramanyam
  • Mother:
  • Santhanalakshmi

Jayanthi Biography

Jayanthi is a famous South Indian actress who has been at the top during the era of 1960’s and 1970’s. She has worked in all south Indian languages as well as Hindi and Marathi. She has been honoured with the title Abhinaya Shaarade by Kannada film industry for her excellence in acting. Her pairing with the most popular actor of Kannada screen, super star Rajkumar has been very successful and together they have appeared in more than 30 films. A few of their noted movies are Bangalore mail, Muriyada Mane, Chandavalliya Thota, Chakratheertha, Manasiddare Marga, Sri Krishnadevaraya, Nandagokula, Devara Gedda Manava, Mantralaya Mahatme, Punarjanma, Devara Gedda Manava, Bala Bandhana, Choori Chikkanna, Bahaddur gandu, Manasiddare Marga, Pratigne, Nanna Thamma and Simha Swapna. Aside N. T. Rama Rao, she has acted in hit movies like Kula Gowravam, Jagadeka Veeruni Katha, Kondaveeti Simham and Justice Chowdhury. She played lead role in Miss Leelavathi, at a time when India was a conservative society.

 

Jayanthi was born on the 11th of October 1945 in Bellary, Karnataka. Her real name is Kamala Kumari. Her father Balasubramanyam was an English professor and her mother’s name was Santhanalakshmi. She was born as their elder child. Her parents separated when she was young and her mother took her and her three siblings to Chennai. Her mother promoted art and gave her formal training in classical dance at a younger age. Tamil actress Manorama was her friend at the dance school. She joined movies in teens doing bit roles in Tamil and Telugu. When she entered Tamil cinema as an actress, she was often criticized as she was not able to deliver Tamil dialogues. Her dancing steps too were criticized.

 

But her life changed completely when Kannada director Y R Swamy spotted her during one of her dance rehearsals. She debut with Jenu Goodu and her name was changed to Jayanthi. Later she became one of the top actresses of Kannada film industry and shared same screen space with super star Rajkumar for more than 30 movies of which majority of them were box office hits.

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Updated: March 14, 2014

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