Vijayashanti
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Name:Vijayashanti
is an Indian film actress and a politician from Andhra Pradesh, India. Prior to joining politics in 2004, she has acted in over 186 movies in seven languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She is credited as "The Lady Superstar" of South Indian cinema. She has won the National Film Award in Best Actress category for Karthavyam in 1991 and also She won four Nandi Awards and six Filmfare Awards South out of which five are Filmfare Best Actress Award (Telugu) and one Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (South). She played a wide variety of roles ranging from glamour, action, tough cop, Goddess to sentimental roles.
Childhood
She was born in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India on 24 June 1964.[1] Her parents Varalaxmi and Srinivas Prasad hailed from Ramannagudem, Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh.[2] She completed her 10th class at Holly Angeles High School, Chennai, before starting her film career.[3]
Early career
She began her acting career in 1980 as the leading lady in the Tamil film Kallukkul Eeram ("The moisture inside stone / rock") directed by P. S. Nivas. The same year, she debuted in Telugu with the movie Kilaadi Krishnudu ('Cunning Krishna'), pairing opposite Krishna. She was given screen name "Vijaya Shanthi" based on her aunt and veterna actress Vijaya Lalitha. She got a role in the Telugu film Satyam-Sivam (1981), the cast of which included N. T. Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao.Glamour Queen & Dream Girl
By 1985 she was exclusively acting in Telugu films. She became a Glamour Queen of the Telugu film industry. She is one of the leading actress who played both glamour and performance oriented films. Her glamour roles were brought out by K. Raghavendra Rao and A. Kodandarami Reddy in films like (Challenge, Desodhdhaarakudu, Pasivadi Pranam, Muddula Krishnaiah, Agni Parvatam, Yamudiki Mogudu, Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu, Muddula Mavayya, Gang Leader etc.).In 1992 Mondi Mogudu Penki Pellam movie was a huge success. She played a role of a bold lady speaking Telangana slang in the role[citation needed]. In the 90s, she was the only actress demanding
1 crore (US$150,000) as remuneration for a film[citation needed]. Most of her films with Chiranjeevi (19 films) and Balakrishna (16 films) were huge hits and mostly called as Hit Pair for both lead actors by the audience. She has acted alongside Tamil superstar Rajinikanth in the film Mannan as the antagonist. She also acted with yester year heroes like Krishna, Shoban Babu.Action heroine
Her break through movie was Neti bharatham (1983), from there she started acting lady oriented roles teaming up with T.Krishna. In 1985 Pratighatana from the same director won her accolades and a state Nandi award for the first time. Films like Repati Pourulu, Aruna kiranam, Vande mataranm and Bharatha nari are some other movies winning some state awards. In the blockbuster movie Karthavyam (1990), her performance as a tough cop (modeled after real-life supercop Kiran Bedi) won her the National Film Award from Indian Government and an Andhra Pradesh State award for best actress.She became third women to win national award for best actress from Telugu industry. The success of this movie saw her moving away from glamorous roles and limiting herself to tough lady roles. These tough lady roles made her a leading actress in Telugu films.In 1990, Karthavyam was dubbed into Tamil as Vijayanthi IPS and its success brought her actress in Tamil cinema as well. (It was also remade in Hindi as Tejaswini, with herself playing the lead role. As expected, Tejaswini did very well at the Hindi box-office). Following the success of Vijayanthi IPS, the producers of her films began releasing Tamil versions of her movies simultaneously with the Telugu Movies. After she started concentrating on Action roles. some thing special is her nativity showing.
In 1997 she did Osey Ramulamma directed by Dasari Narayana Rao was a huge success and winning her another Nandi Award. From this film onwards she is mostly called as "Ramulamma" by the people.
Political career
Vijayashanti joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and was soon made the secretary of BJP's Women's Wing (Bharateeya Mahila Morcha).[4] During the 1999 general election she was named BJP's contestant from the Cuddapah Lok Sabha seat against Sonia Gandhi of Congress(I) (however, she withdrew from the race after Sonia Gandhi decided to contest from Bellary). She started her own political party, Talli Telangana, which merged into Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) due to lack of strength and support, in January 2009.
From 1999 her movie appearances decreased as she focused on her political career. By 2004 she had stopped signing new films. In the 2009 general election, she won Medak seat.[5] In June 2009, she resigned from the post of secretary general of TRS, expressing solidarity with the resignation of Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao.[6] In 2011, she submitted her resignation as an MP. The resignation was later rejected by the speaker of the house, as they were not in the proper format. Later she was actively participating in Politics for separate Telangana state (region).
Personal life
She is married to M. V. Srinivas Prasad. She made that public in her application to election commission.[7] He produced a movie "Nippuravva" under the banner of "Yuvaratna arts". He is a real estate businessman in Andhra Pradesh State, South India.
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