Pics: An actress who 'hated' the limelight, worked in over 140 films

In about a decade during 1960s and mid 1970s, Jayalalithaa had starred in over 100 Tamil films and at one point was tipped to be the highest paid actress of the industry. She also worked in few Kannada movies. She made her last on screen appearance in Tamil film, "Nadhiyal Thedi Vanda Kadhala (1980), and by then was nursing her political ambitions.