Sundaram Jayalakshmi (25 July 1920 - 21 July 2007) was an Indian Tamil-language film actress and singer who played lead parts in movies of the 1930s and 1940s. Starting her film career with ''Seetha Kalyanam'' in 1934, she acted in about a dozen movies, her most remembered role being in the 1943 movie ''Sivakavi''. She is the sister of musicians
S. Rajam
S. Rajam (10 February 1919 – 29 January 2010) was a distinguished Indian Carnatic musician and painter from the state of Tamil Nadu. He was a student of the Carnatic musician Papanasam Sivan and the older brother of Tamil film director and m ...
and
S. Balachander.
Early life
Jayalakshmi was born on 25 July 1920 in Madras to lawyer V. Sundaram Iyer and his wife Parvathi. In 1933, when
V. Shantaram wanted to make a Tamil movie and placed an advertisement in ''Sight and Sound'' magazine, Sundaram Iyer came forward to help him and as a result the whole family travelled to
Kolhapur
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Kolhapur is k ...
to make their debut in the movie ''Seetha Kalyanam'' with Jayalakshmi as the heroine Seetha and her older brother Rajam as the hero Rama.
Death
Jayalakshmi died at her residence in
Besant Nagar
Besant Nagar is an upscale, exclusive residential neighbourhood in South Chennai, India. It is located along the coast of Bay of Bengal.
The neighbourhood is inhabited by highly affluent population and is dotted with many upmarket restaurant ...
, Chennai of
natural causes
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at 6 AM on 21 July 2007.
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Indian film actresses
Tamil actresses
2007 deaths
1920 births
Actresses from Mumbai