Senior lady star Jamuna who acted with NTR and ANR in many films passed away in her house in Hyderabad today. She was popular as Satyabhama in front of NTR.
She is 86 years old and was born in Hampi in 1936. She was brought up in Guntur. She acted in many languages .Jamuna was a stage artist in school. Her mother taught her vocal music and harmonium. Dr.
Garikipati Raja Rao (see Indian People’s Theatre Association IPTA) watched her stage show Maa Bhoomi and gave her offer to act in his film Puttillu in 1952.
She acted in 198 films in Telugu and other south Indian languages. She also acted in Hindi films, winning the Filmfare best supporting actress award for Milan (1967), repeating her role from the original Telugu film Mooga Manusulu (1964).
She also established the Telugu artist association and doing social service through it for the last 25 years.Jamuna joined the Congress party and then worked for the BJP also. She campaigned for Bandaru Dattatreya in many elections.
She was an MP also for one term from Rajamundry. She could not continue in politics after some time. She worked in 198 movies.Puttillu was her first movie.
