 Her next Kannada film as heroine was T. V. Singh Thakur's "Chandavalliya Thota," the first film that paired her with Rajkumar.Based on T. R. Subba Rao's novel the film was a huge success and even won the President's Medal for Best Film in Kannada.The next major film that Jayanthi starred in was the 1965 "Miss Leelavathi" directed by M. R. Vittal in which she played the title role.