Fast forward to a happy ending – they have now been married for 14 years. And the same Chandru not only started reworking shoot schedules to suit her, but also proposed to her - over the phone! Jayashree was travelling in a car with others for a film launch function, and there was little that she could say except answer in monosyllables. Things got better when Chandru needed her help with props for the serial. Later, when some of the team members of Brungadha… also mistook my practice of keeping to myself for 'arrogance', they were easily able to influence him against me!” she laughs. He told his future mother-in-law that her daughter had too much 'attitude'. As production manager, he had to drop me home after shooting. Without meaning to hurt him, I told him that such a simple scene required no rehearsal. He wanted to rehearse the scene since it was his first time in front of the camera. “Chandru debuted opposite me in Samagama as a waiter who had to serve me coffee. Why her future husband had done all that would fit any film script. He kept trying to get me out of the serial.” I would not budge since I knew what dates I had allotted. “Chandru would deliberately get my dates wrong and create confusion.
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He was the production manager of Brungadha Benneri, a successful TV serial that she was doing the lead role in. Her initial interactions with Chandru were stormy. He has worked in over 25 serials and 10 films as an actor, and has handled over 20 TV productions. Jayashree is married to Rakesh Chandru, who is also an actor and producer in the Kannada industry. Her daughter, Anagha Abhivandana, is now 13 years old - the exact age her mother was when she entered the TV industry. Now I feel that I have missed an important part of my life,” she says wistfully. I didn’t regret this until my daughter reached high school. ‘Seriously, you didn’t go to college, amma?’ she asks. I was a two-year-old who was allowed in with her. “The only time I physically entered a college was when my mother Jagadamba was studying D.Pharma at PES College. I completed my BA through correspondence courses purely to keep my parents happy.” Ironically, one of the three subjects for Jayashree’s BA degree was Education. I was busy, sometimes in two serials a day. I haven’t experienced what every young kid should…attending college, bunking classes, memories of hanging out…I don’t have a ‘college buddy’ or ‘best friend.’ Whoever I know are from the industry. My career took off really well when I was just a school girl. She completed her 10th standard, but could never get a formal college education.
Jayashree began acting in school plays at Nehru Smaraka Vidya Kendra in Bengaluru.
When they did, Jayashree played lead roles in mega serials that crossed 1,000 episodes, including Rathasapthami, Guptagamini and Punyakoti. ‘Mega’ serials had not yet come into vogue. Serials ran to 13, 26 or 52 episodes at the time she entered the scene. But her role in Mayamruga marked the beginning of her whirlwind yatre, with 50 serials and 28 films till date. Her quiet debut was in Kathegaara, a collection of short stories adapted to the small screen, in P Lankesh’s Umapatiya Scholarship Yatre. She worked simultaneously in two other popular serials of the time, Janani and Samagama. Enter Jayashree Raj as the popular Sharada. Her big breakthrough was in the immensely popular 1996-97 TV serial Mayamruga as a vivacious, twinkly-eyed girl who enchanted thousands of Kannada television viewers.
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