Jayasudha Kapoor (born Sujatha Nidudavolu) is an Indian film actress predominantly in Telugu cinema and a former MLA for the Congress in Secunderabad. She has also worked in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and three Hindi films. She has received five state Nandi Awards, and six Filmfare Awards South.Jayasudha made her film debut when she was twelve years old as Jamuna's daughter in the Telugu film Panduntikaapuram.
Her next break came in two Tamil films directed by the celebrated director K. Balachander: Arangettram and Apoorva Raagangal. The latter became a big hit. Her fame quickly spread, where Telugu film producers were offering her good film roles. While her debut role as heroine in the Telugu film Lakshmana Rekha (1975) got her attention, it was really the title role in Jyothi (1975) (remake of the Hindi film Mili starring Jaya Bhaduri) that made her a huge star in Telugu films.
She was now called a successor to the great Telugu actress Savithri and performed many strong roles and showed excellent range.She has acted in different languages such as Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films and critically acclaimed 1976 Telugu drama film Jyothi directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. She is also a one of the brilliant film actress in Telugu Industry.
Jayasudha is married to Nitin kapoor and both couples have children by name Shreayan and Nihar kapoor.Jayasudha first film name is Pandanti Kapuram. Some of the famous films in which Jayasudha acted are Rowdy, Yevadu, Parugu, Vishnu, Bommarillu, Vijay, Palmati simham, yugandhar, Pranam kareedu.Jayasudha is a former MLA to Secunderabad constituency for Congress government in 2009 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections.
But Jayasudha was lost in 2014 Telangana assembly elections and she has 3rd place in that election.Jayasudha has completed her work successful in Telugu, Tamil and other industries. Vijaya Nirmala is a director and Telugu Cinema actress and she is an aunt to actress Jayasudha. Jayasudha is a grand daughter to Nidudavolu Venkatarao and Gidugu Krishna Murthy.
I turned as a TV anchor on NTV and started introducing real plight of the poor and unfortunate ones of our society. I feel that some more to be done for the poor and downtrodden and that is the reason I entered congress party as a member. I feel that I can do more social work and reach the needy. I believe that the youth have in them this “power within” to be a force to reckon with. Hence I trust that the development of the nation is in the hands of the youth and so the youth must come forward to enter politics and Congress party which has offered a yeoman service to the country and the state under the present Chief Minister Mr. Y.S. Rajasekara Reddy garu.
Number of films are acted by Jayasudha in Telugu and Tamil mostly under the direction of K Balachander like in 1973 Sollathaan Ninaikkiren, in 1974 Naan Avanillai, Idi Katha Kaadu and Appoorva Raagangal. Jayasudha original name is Sujatha. She has changed her name to Jayasudha because many of the film actress are having the name Sujatha.
Her roles varied from the cute looking teeny bopper who wore minis in Nomu (1974) to the battered wife of a sadist husband in Idi Katha Kadu, to that of a comedienne who discovers that her husband wants to murder her for her wealth in "Money." She performed showy roles in Telugu remakes of Hindi films, such as Yugandhar (1979) (the fighter role that Zeenat Aman originated in Don (1978 film)), Illalu (1981) (Reena Roy's dark-shaded role from Apnapan (1977)), etc.
In commercial cinema, she received a huge break when she starred in Adavi Ramudu (1977), which broke box office records. She also showed innovativeness and lack of vanity in original Telugu films like Premabhishekam (1981) where she played a supporting role as a deglamorized prostitute, while Sridevi played the female lead.
While her debut role as heroine in the Telugu film Lakshmana Rekha (1975) got her attention, it was really the title role in Jyothi (remake of the Hindi film Mili starring Jaya Bhaduri) that made her a big star in Telugu films. She was now called a successor to the great Telugu actress Savitri and performed many strong roles and showed excellent range.
She is given the title "Sahaja Nati" which means "natural/realistic actress."Jayasudha again fell in love with producer Nitin Kapoor, cousin to actor Jeetendra. They married in 1985 and have two children, Sons Nihar (born in 1986) and Sreyanth (born in 1990). While she has friends in the industry, such as Radhika and Revati, her closest friend is Jayaprada, with whom she had acted with in huge hits Adavi Ramudu (1977) and Meghasandesam (1982).
She converted to christianity after discovering Jesus in an water accident.