Early life
Jayalalitha was born in 24 February 1948 at melukote,pandavapura, mandaya district of Karnataka state. Her father was Jayaram and Vedavalli.
Her name was given on the grandmother's name Komalavalli at time of birth. Later Jayalalitha name was adopted for the purpose of using the name in her school. Her father was a lawyer died when she was just 2 years of old. After death her husband vedavalli returned to her father's home in Banglore in 1950. Jayalalitha stayed with her aunt from 1950-1958 in Mysore.
Jayalalitha completed education from Scares heart matriculation school. She won state level gold medal for achieving 1st position in 10th standard in Tamil Nadu and got scholarship for her further studies.
Film Career
Jayalalithaa trained in classical piano and various forms of classical dance. She gave debut dance performance at Raskia Ranjani sabha in mylapore in may 1960. She acted in Kannada-language as a child in 1961.
Jayalalithaa was taken to studio by her mother where her mother was shooting for a school drama and one of the child actor failed to show up the role and the role was given to Jayalalithaa.
She first started in the Kannada movie"chinnade Gombe" with paid Rs 3000. And the movie became the blockbuster in 1964, Then she became the well known among the producers and directors.
She debuted in Tamil movie in cinema with leading role in Vennira Aadai in 1965. She was the first heroine to appear in skirt in Tamil film.
She played in hindi movie "Izzat" with Dharmendra in 1968. She starred in 28 box office hits film with M.G. Ramachandran between 1965-1973. She have 85 hits tamil movie as lead heroine, 28 films silver jubilee hits in Telegu.
Political Career
Jayalalithaa claims that MGR introduced her to the political career. She joined AIADMK which was founded by MGR. MGR wanted her to make the member of Rajya sabha due to her fluence English.
After the death of MGR AIADMK split into two factions one supported Jankai Ramachandran(Widow of MGR) and other supported Jayalalitha.
After coiliation with she became the CM of Tamil Nadu in 1991. In 1996 she lost the power by the DMK opposition.
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| Jayalalithaa with MGR |
{The wedding event of her foster son Sudhakarn, who married with grand daughter of Shivaji Ganesan,which hold the Guinness world record of having guest (150000) was viewed in the large screen. She was arrested in 1996 and was remain in the 30 days judical custody in connection with color tv scam.
In 2001 she became CM for the 2nd time. On her absence Panneerselvam subsequently installed as the CM. In 2011 she became CM for third time. In the same year 2011 she expelled her long time close aide Sashikala Netarajan and some of her relative who trying to kill her by poisioning her food over a time. Later the case was solved when Sashikala Netarajan wrote apology letter to Jayalalithaa.
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| Jayalalithaa with Sashikala |
On the case launched by Subramanian swamy Jayalalithaa,Sashikala, her niece,her nephew and foster son were sentenced to jail for 4 years.
On 2015 she returned as the CM for the fifth time. In 2016 again she became CM for 6th time.
Death
On 22nd sep 2016 she was admitted to the Apollo hospital in Chennai as she suffered from infection
and acute dehydration. As her official duties were given to Paneersalvam on 12th october 2016. On 4th dec 2016 she was re-admitted to ICU after she suffered from cardiac arrest 16:45.
On 5 December, the hospital officially announced her death 23:30.
Her body was kept at her residence Rajaji Hall.Her last rites were performed on the evening of 6 December and she was interred in the northern end of the Marina beach in Chennai in sandalwood casket, near the grave of her mentor M.G. Ramachandran.
The final rites were performed by her nephew Deepak Jayakumar.
