Jayaprada is hailed as one of the most iconic and influential actresses in both Telugu and Hindi film industries in late '70s, '80s and early '90s.
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25 Facts About Jayaprada
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Jayaprada is the recipient of three Filmfare Awards South and has starred in many Telugu and Hindi films along with several Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Marathi films.
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Jayaprada left the film industry at the peak of her career, as she joined the Telugu Desam Party in 1994 and entered politics.
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Jayaprada was a Member of Parliament from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh from 2004 to 2014.
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Jayaprada won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for her performance in Sagara Sangamam.
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Jayaprada has been considered by many as one of the most beautiful face to have ever graced Indian cinema including Satyajit Ray who called her "the most beautiful face on the Indian screen".
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Jayaprada was born as Lalitha Rani in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh Rajaka family.
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When Jayaprada was a teenager, she performed a dance at her school's annual function.
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Jayaprada was hesitant, but her family encouraged her to accept it.
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Jayaprada was paid only 10 rupees for her work in the film, but the rushes of those three minutes of film were shown to the major figures of the Telugu film industry.
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Jayaprada continued to act in more films in Telugu opposite actors such NTR, ANR, Krishna, Krishnam Raju and Sobhan Babu throughout the 70s and 80s.
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Jayaprada acted in highest number of films with Krishna like Sri Rajeshwari vilas coffee club, Bhale Krishnudu, Ooruki Monagadu, Mundadugu, Prajarajyam and Singhasan,.
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Jayaprada earned her first Filmfare nomination as Best Actress but couldn't capitalize on her success since she couldn't speak Hindi.
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Jayaprada was now able to consistently work in Hindi films, and earned two more Filmfare nominations as Best Actress for playing Amitabh Bachchan's endearing girlfriend in Prakash Mehra's Sharaabi and for her challenging double role in K Vishwanath's Sanjog.
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Jayaprada made a successful team not just with Amitabh Bachchan and Jeetendra, but with her immediate screen rival Sridevi, with whom she has acted in about a dozen films.
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Jayaprada continued to act as a heroine mainly opposite Amitabh and Jeetendra during the early 1990s.
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Jayaprada played "Grace" in this film, which won her critical acclaim and several awards.
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Jayaprada was nominated to the Rajya Sabha representing Andhra Pradesh in 1996.
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Jayaprada contested from Rampur parliamentary Constituency in UP during the 2004 General election and got elected with a margin of more than 85000 votes.
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On 11 May 2009, Jayaprada alleged that senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan was distributing nude pictures of her.
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Jayaprada was re-elected with a margin of more than 30,000 votes.
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Amar Singh, along with Jayaprada floated his own political party, Rashtriya Lok Manch, in 2011, and fielded candidates in 360 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2012 assembly polls.
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Jayaprada joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of National General Secretary Bhupender Yadav on 26 March 2019.
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