Mother had pressurised me to join films, Jaya had revealed
Late Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa had once revealed in an interview that her mother had pressurised her to join films. "I wept, I raged, I argued... but then what can one do when one is 16", she added. Jayalalithaa started her full-time acting career in 1968 and had acted in over 125 films. 