Jaya Prada (b. 3 April 1960), also spelled Jaya Pradha, born Lalita Rani) is a film actress in the Tollywood and Bollywood film industries.Jaya Prada was born as Lalita Rani in the historical town of Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh in a middle-class home. Her father was a Telugu film financier. Her mother enrolled her in dance and music classes at an early age. She was fourteen years old, when she gave a dance performance at her school. A film director was in audience and he offered her a three-minute musical number in the Telugu film Bhoomi Kosam. She was hesitant but her family encouraged her to accept it. The rushes of those three minutes of film was shown to the major figures of the Telugu film industry, and the floodgates opened. Big-name directors approached her with starring roles in quality projects and she accepted them.