Jaya Prada is an Indian politician and film actor. Apart from appearing in many Bollywood and South Indian films, she is also a famous politician. In 2004, she was elected to the Lok Sabha on behalf of the Samajwadi Party and served as a member of Parliament until 2014.
Wiki/Biography
Lalita Rani Ravanam or Jaya Prada was born on 3 April 1962 in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India (age as of 2023: 61 years). Her father Krishna Rao is a Telugu film financier. She attended a Telugu medium school in her hometown of Rajahmundry and took dance and music classes. When Jaya was just 13 years old, she danced at her school’s annual event. A film director in the audience invited her to play a three-minute dance role in the Telugu film Bhoomi Kosam, which she accepted. She was paid Rs 10 cr for her role in the film.
Jaya Prada childhood photos
appearance
family
Jaya Prada’s father is Krishna Rao (Telugu film financier) and her mother is Neelaveni (housewife). She has a brother named Raja who is also her manager.
Jaya Prada and her mother Neelaveni
In 1986, she married film producer Shrikant Nahata. At that time, Shrikant Nahata was married and had three children.
Shrikant Nahata, Jaya Prada’s husband
She has three stepsons; one of them is Sidhu.
Jaya Prada and her stepson Siddhu
film career
She started her career as an actress. She made her Telugu debut in the film Bhoomi Kosam (1974). She made her debut in the Kannada film industry in Sanaadi Appanna (1977).
Sargam (1979) was her first Hindi film. She made her Tamil debut with Ninaithale Inikkum (1979). Iniyum Katha Thudarum (1985) was her first Malayalam film. Apart from this, Jaya Prada has also acted in Marathi and Bengali films. Jaya Prada is one of the best dancers of her time. She was nominated three times for Best Actress at the Filmfare Awards; Sargam (1979), Sharaabi (1984) and Sanjog (1985).
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In the 1980s, she was at the peak of her career. Around 1985, she was the highest-paid actress in Bollywood. Throughout her career, she appeared in more than 150 films.
Political career
In 1994, she joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) at the invitation of its founder NT Rama Rao and became a politician in 1994. In 1996, she was nominated as a Member of Parliament representing Andhra Pradesh. Jaya Prada also holds the post of President of Telugu Mahila. She left the TDP and joined the Samajwadi Party due to differences with the party Supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu. In the 2004 general elections, she contested from Rampur, defeating Begum Noor Bano Alias Mehtab Zamani Begum of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 85,000 votes. In the 2009 general election, she was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the same constituency. Jaya was expelled from the party on February 2, 2010, when she started supporting former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh.
Jaya Prada and Amar Singh
On March 10, 2014, she joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal along with Amar Singh. Jaya contested the 2014 Bijnor district election but lost. On March 26, 2019, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of state general secretary Bhupender Yadav. She contested against Azam Khan from Rampur in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections but lost.
Awards/Honors
Southern Film Audience Award
- Special Award for Film; Siri Siri Muvva and Anthuleni Katha (1976)
- Best Actress Award for the Telugu film Saagara Sangamam (1983)
- Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
Nandi Award
- She won the Best Actress Award for the film Anthuleni Katha (1976).
dispute
- Her marriage to Srikanth Nahata was controversial. Srikanth is married and has 3 children. Srikanth did not divorce his first wife.
- In 2009, the Election Commission issued a notice to Jaya asking her to distribute bindis to women in Rampurswar district.
- On May 11, 2009, she alleged that Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan was involved in distributing her nude photos.
- Jaya Prada found herself embroiled in a controversy when a case was registered against her at Suar police station, also known as Swar police station, in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh . The charges stem from her violation of the Model Code of Conduct during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when she presided over a road. Subsequently, the Uttar Pradesh MP-MLA court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Jaya Prada. In November 2023, the court extended the arrest warrant for the fourth time because she failed to appear in court.
- On August 11, 2023, the Egmore Magistrate Court in Chennai sentenced her to six months’ imprisonment and fined her Rs 10 lakh. Fined $5,000 for non-payment of ESI to employees of a cinema she owned in Chennai. According to sources, after the closure of cinemas, the Labor government insurance company filed a complaint against her, accusing her of deducting ESI amounts from workers’ wages but not paying them. Jayaprada admitted the charges and said he intended to settle the outstanding payments while also seeking to have the case dismissed. However, the court rejected her appeal and imposed a fine and jail term.
favorite thing
- Movies: “3 Idiots” (Bollywood), “Pulp Fiction” (Hollywood)
- TV Shows: Kaun Banega Crorepati (India), Westworld (USA)
net asset value
As per her affidavit filed during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, her estimated net worth is Rs. Rs 27.92 Crore (Approx.)
fact
- Jaya dropped out of B.com in her first year at Rajlakshmi College for Women in Rajmandri, Andhra Pradesh.
- Initially, she had difficulty speaking Hindi and she started taking Hindi classes to master the language.
- In 1982, director K. Vishwanath revived her in the Hindi film Kaamchor, in which she spoke Hindi fluently for the first time.
- In 1994, an actor and her good friend NT Rama Rao suggested her to join politics, so she joined the Telugu Democratic Party (TDP).
- In 2011, after splitting from the Samajwadi Party, Jaya founded his own party, the Rashtriya Lok Manch, along with Amar Singh, and fielded 360 candidates from 403 parliamentary seats in the 2012 parliamentary elections. However, her party failed to win a single seat in that election.
- She is the owner of Jaya Prada Theater in Chennai.
Jaya Prada Theatre, Chennai
- Famous Indian film producer Satyajit Ray called her “the most beautiful face on the Indian screen”.
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