About J.Jayalal
ithaJayalalithaa Jayaram: born 24 February 1948) commonly referred to as J. Jayalalitha, is the Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. She is the incumbent general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a Dravidian party. She is called Amma ('Mother') andPuratchi Thalaivi ('Revolutionary Leader') by her followers.[1] She was a successful film actor in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi before entering politics.\
Jayalalithaa was born on 24 February 1948 in a typical Mandyam Iyengar family and was also known at that time as Komalavalli. She was born in Melukote in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district, Karnataka near to the city of Mysore. Her grandfather was in the service of the then Mysore kingdom as a surgeon, and the prefix Jaya has been added to all the names in the family to reflect their association with Maharaja His Late Highness Sir Sri Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar of Mysore.[2]
Jayalalithaa’s father, who had been a wealthy lawyer, died when she was two years old having lost all of his money.[2] Her mother then moved with her children toBangalore, where Jayalalithaa's maternal grandparents lived. Her mother eventually began to work as an actress in Tamil cinema, based in Chennai and having taken the screen name of Sandhya.[2][3] While in Bangalore, Jayalalithaa attended Bishop Cotton Girls' High School.[4] She completed her childhood education at Sacred Heart Matriculation School (popularly known as Church Park Presentation Convent or Presentation Church Park Convent) in Chennai.[3] She excelled at school and has said that she was offered a government scholarship to pursue further education[4] and that her ambition was to become a lawyer, but that the financial position of her family prevented this.[5] She appears not to have taken up a place offered to her at Stella Maris College, Chennai.[
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Film career
See also: Jayalalitha filmography
[edit]Early career
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Jayalalithaa was born on 24 February 1948 in a typical Mandyam Iyengar family and was also known at that time as Komalavalli. She was born in Melukote in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district, Karnataka near to the city of Mysore. Her grandfather was in the service of the then Mysore kingdom as a surgeon, and the prefix Jaya has been added to all the names in the family to reflect their association with Maharaja His Late Highness Sir Sri Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar of Mysore.[2]
Jayalalithaa’s father, who had been a wealthy lawyer, died when she was two years old having lost all of his money.[2] Her mother then moved with her children toBangalore, where Jayalalithaa's maternal grandparents lived. Her mother eventually began to work as an actress in Tamil cinema, based in Chennai and having taken the screen name of Sandhya.[2][3] While in Bangalore, Jayalalithaa attended Bishop Cotton Girls' High School.[4] She completed her childhood education at Sacred Heart Matriculation School (popularly known as Church Park Presentation Convent or Presentation Church Park Convent) in Chennai.[3] She excelled at school and has said that she was offered a government scholarship to pursue further education[4] and that her ambition was to become a lawyer, but that the financial position of her family prevented this.[5] She appears not to have taken up a place offered to her at Stella Maris College, Chennai.[
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Film career
See also: Jayalalitha filmography
[edit]Early career
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