Jayaram Jayalalithaa born AS Komalavalli, 24 February 1948 at Melukote, Pandavapura taluka, Mandya district, then in Mysore State to Jayaram and Vedavalli in Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family. Jayalalitha was given her grandmother's name Komalavalli at the time of birth.The name Jayalalitha was adopted at the age of one for the purpose of
using the name in school and colleges. It was derived from the names of
two houses where she resided in Mysore. One was "Jaya Vilas" and the
other "Lalitha Vilas".Her paternal grandfather, Narasimhan Rengachary, was in the service of the Mysore kingdom as a surgeon, and served as the court physician to Maharaja Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV of Mysore. Her maternal grandfather, Rangasamy Iyengar, moved to Mysore from Srirangam to work with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
He had one son and three daughters – Ambujavalli, Vedavalli and
Padmavalli. Vedavalli was given in marriage to Narasimhan Rengachary's
son, Jayaram. The couple Jayaram-Vedvalli had two children: a son
Jayakumar and a daughter, Jayalalitha. Her mother, her relatives and later co-stars and friends referred her as Ammu.Jayalalitha's father, Jayaram, was a lawyer Jayalalithaa attended Bishop Cotton Girls' School.She was fluent in several languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam and English. Her brother Jayakumar, his wife Vijayalakshmi and their daughter Deepa Jayakumar lived in Poes Garden with Jayalalitha .she was trained in Carnatic music, western classical pianoand various forms of classical dance, including Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Mohiniyattam, Manipuri Kathak. she was an Indian actor and politician who served six terms as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for over fourteen years between 1991 and 2016. From 1989 she was the general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), a Dravidian party whose cadre revered her as their Amma (mother), Puratchi Thalaivi (revolutionary leader) and Thanga Tharagai (golden maiden).Jayalalithaa first came into prominence as a leading film actress in the mid-1960.
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