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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian actress and singer (1920–2007)}}<br />
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| caption = S. Jayalakshmi in ''[[Sivakavi]]'' (1943)<br />
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| death_date = {{Death_date_and_age|2007|07|21|1920|07|24|mf=y}}<br />
| death_place = Chennai, India<br />
| occupation = Actor<br />
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'''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]] and [[S. Balachander]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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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]] to make their debut in the movie ''Seetha Kalyanam'' with Jayalakshmi as the heroine Seetha and her older brother Rajam as the hero Rama.<br />
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== Death ==<br />
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Jayalakshmi died at her residence in [[Besant Nagar]], Chennai of [[natural causes]] at 6 AM on 21 July 2007.<ref name="thehindu_20070722">{{cite news|title=Yesteryear actor dead|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/yesteryear-actor-dead/article1877504.ece|work=The Hindu|date=22 March 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170322060926/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/Yesteryear-actor-dead/article14801338.ece|archive-date=22 March 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/Rajams-romance-with-cinema/article15693108.ece|title= Rajam's romance with cinema |last=Randor Guy |author-link=Randor Guy |date=5 February 2010|work=The Hindu|accessdate=22 March 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322060146/http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/Rajams-romance-with-cinema/article15693108.ece|archivedate=22 March 2017}}<br />
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