While there is no denying that Telugu film industry is a male-dominated workspace, women are still miles away from what could be termed as a power centre. Veteran Actress Jamuna is someone who shared screen space with all the legends of Telugu Film Industry and she is being treated as one of the legends of the golden era ruled by NTR (Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao) and ANR (Akkineni Nageswara Rao ). Recently during the media interaction, Jamuna made sensational comments on ANR and NTR. According to her. they had boycotted her for several years
Jamuna said, “Due to my confident nature, both the top actors NTR and ANR had boycotted working with me. Alter I did nearly 15-20 movies without them. Out of which 18 movies were turned out hit at the box office. “
Jamuna made her acting debut at the age of 16 in Dr. Garikapati Rajarao’s Puttillu in 1953 and received her breakthrough with L. V. Prasad’s Missamma. She won two Filmfare Awards.
Jamuna has acted in 198 films in Telugu and other south Indian languages. Jamuna has also been the part of few Hindi films, winning the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Milan(1967), repeating her role from the original Telugu film Mooga Manasulu in 1964.