Jayasudha was born on December 17, 1958 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. She was initially named Subadra, but her family soon changed it to Sujatha, because they felt that it was a more contemporary name. Her mother had appeared in small film roles as a child but lost interest in films and gave it up. Her father also wasn't involved in films, but his ...
I always enjoyed my acting career. I was always recognized as a performance oriented heroine. I was always considered as the girl next door and loved. I was taken into the films that have two heroines. When either Sridevi or Jaya Prada are considered for glamor role, it was me who was called up for the other performance heroine role.
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I have many friends in the film industry like Radhika Sarathkumar, Revathy, and Jaya Prada. Of them Jaya Prada is my close friend. She was always my competitor but we are always friends. Even when a good role is offered to me in the same project we worked together and she never cribbed about it. We get along very well without any jealous feelings.
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I have always been termed a serious person right from my childhood though I was a bit of a tomboy in school. I do not like artificiality in life and those who pretend to be what they are actually not.
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When I first started acting, it was a profession that was looked down upon. I also felt stupid dancing in the middle of the road and holding a hero who was as old as my father. In those days, all the heroes were very old. I didn't like that. I used to feel, 'How can a 17-year-old fall in love with a man who is as old as her father?' I wanted to fall in love with someone who was my age! I was crazy about cricketers and I wanted to marry one.
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To be very frank, I have a lot of fears in my mind. But when I pray to God, I feel at peace with myself. If you believe in God, I feel you can communicate with him. I don't know about the others but I can.
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Is allergic to eggs and bemoans the fact that she can't eat pastries.
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Claims that she never had crushes on any of her many leading men, but instead fell in love with film producer Nitin Kapoor and married him.
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The press documented her 50th birthday celebration, coinciding with a Christmas celebration, as she donated gifts to a charitable organization. [December 2008]
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Writer-Director Narayana Rao Dasari cast her in nearly 30 films. He used her name in the song "Andalanni Neelone Daguyanni....Jayasudha" in the film Idekaddi Nyayam (1977) that was picturized on her. By 1982, she had become such a famous actress that he titled a film that she starred in Jayasudha (1982) named after her.
Her first son Nihar was born in 1986, and her second son Sreyanth was born in 1990.
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She claims that when she was a child, she was a very bad student and was only interested in films, dance, and cricket.
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Vijaya Nirmala convinced Jayasudha's disapproving father to let the stage-struck girl act in films, and that she personally would take care of her, and he finally relented.
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She married actor Jeetendra's cousin, a film producer named Nitin Kapoor, in 1985, claiming that it was their mutual love of cricket that made them close.
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Even though Telugu is her mother tongue, she never learned to read or write Telugu because she was born in Madras where Tamil and English are taught in schools. She acted in 225 Telugu films by having people read lines to her, and she would remember and deliver her lines.
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