Satti Vijayashanti is an Indian film actress, producer and politician. She has acted in over 180 feature films in a variety of roles in various Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her work as a super cop in Kartavyam.
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Satti Vijayashanti is an Indian film actress, producer and politician. She has acted in over 180 feature films in a variety of roles in various Indian languages including Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her work as a super cop in Kartavyam. Her remuneration for the Telugu movie Karthavyam was ₹ 1 crore, which was then the highest ever paid in India to a female actor. She joined state politics in 1998. She is the niece of famous Telugu actress and producer Vijayalalitha. She was born into a Kapu family to Satti Srinivas Prasad and Varalakshmi, in Madras. She started her acting career at the age of 14 in 1980, playing the leading lady in the Tamil film Kallukkul Eeram, directed by Bharathiraja. In the same year, she debuted in Telugu cinema with the movie Kilaadi Krishnudu, opposite Krishna, directed by Vijaya Nirmala. Her breakthrough movie was Neti Bharatam, and from there she started acting in women-centric roles, teaming up with T.
Krishna. She appeared in successful films like Agni Parvatam, Challenge, Pratighatana, Repati Pourulu, Pasivadi Pranam, Muvva Gopaludu, Yamudiki Mogudu and Chinarayudu. In 1994 it was remade into Hindi as Meri Nahi Biwi Ka Jawabin. She delivered a powerful performance for the first time in the blockbusters Dh Dh Dh, for which she won her accolades and a state Nandi Award. She also garnered seven Filmfare Awards South, six for best acting and one Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, and fourState Nandi Awards for Best actress. She played a bold lady speaking Telangana speaking slang and delivered the career-defining song \”aloo Darwaja Laskar Dar-defined\” in the film Meri Na Biwi Nahi Ka Jawin. In 1990, she was the only actress remunerated to equal equal to her co-stars in India, co-starring Rajnikant.
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