As An Action Heroine and Mass Entertainer
Her break through movie was Neti bharatham (1983), from there she started acting lady oriented roles teaming up with T.Krishna. In 1985 Pratighatana from the same director won her accolades and a state Nandi award for the first time. Films like Repati Pourulu, Aruna kiranam, Vande mataranm and Bharatha nari are some other movies winning some state awards. In the blockbuster movie Karthavyam (1990), her performance as a tough cop (modeled after real-life supercop Kiran Bedi) won her the National Film Award from Indian Government and an Andhra Pradesh State award for best actress.She became third women to win national award for best actress from Telugu industry. The success of this movie saw her moving away from glamorous roles and limiting herself to tough lady roles. These tough lady roles made her a leading actress in Telugu films.
In 1990, Karthavyam was dubbed into Tamil as Vijayanthi IPS and its success brought her actress in Tamil cinema as well. (It was also remade in Hindi as Tejaswini, with herself playing the lead role. As expected, Tejaswini did very well at the Hindi box-office). Following the success of Vijayanthi IPS, the producers of her films began releasing Tamil versions of her movies simultaneously with the Telugu Movies. After she started concentrating on Action roles. some thing special is her nativity showing.
In 1997 comes Osey Ramulamma directed by Dasari Narayana Rao was a huge success and winning her another Nandi Award. From this film onwards she is mostly called as "Ramulamma" by the people.
A.M. Ratnam is a make up man for Vijayashanti for years and grew up as one of the biggest producers in South India, and his first film as a producer was Karthavyam(1991) with the financial support from this actress. He made films with Rajnikanth, Chiranjeevi and many other super stars. His films include Arunachalam, 'Gentle man, Sneham Kosam, Bharatheeyudu as Indian in tamil, Boys, Khushi and many more.
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