Veteran actress Jayanthi dies at 76 in Bengaluru

On Monday, Veteran actress Jayanthi passed away in Bengaluru due to age-related issues. As, the actress was 76 years of age.

However, She made her full-fledged acting debut with the Kannada movie Jenu Goodu in 1963 and she was a multilingual actor who has more than 500 movies to her credit as an actor in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam film industries.

The actress famous superhits were Pedarayudu, Swathi Kiranam, Kodama Simham, Justice Chowdary and Kondaveeti Simham which brought her recognition among the Telugu audiences.

However, on the sad demise of the actress , Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa condoled her demise and he wrote on his twitter; “Her contribution to the film industry is immense. It is an irreplaceable loss to Kannada film industry,”

As per the sources, The veteran actress has won the Karnataka State Film Awards seven times and the Filmfare Awards twice. She has also won several other awards. Moreover, shared screen space with the topmost stars of her era and then went on to work with youngsters too and always lit up the screen with her acting.