In the 1996 state elections, DMK came to power on strength of corruption charges against J.Jayalalithaa and the alliance with Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC), headed by G.K. Moopanar and supported by cine actor Rajinikanth.
The senior actress in her career has shared screen space with Vishnuvardhan, Rajinikanth, Mohanlal, Ambareesh, Ananth Nag and Akkineni Nagarjuna, V. Ravichandran, Shivrajkumar, Mahesh Babu and others.
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When Rosy dies on Christmas Eve due to the cancer, she stills holds Rajinikanth's Shirt, and Rajinikanth starts crying, such was their affection for each other.
It was a remake of the 1977 Kannada film Sahodarara Savaal which starred Vishnuvardhan and Rajinikanth also directed by K.S.R Das, which was dubbed into Tamil as Sahodara Sapatham.
This movie was later remade in Telugu as Manase Mandiram (1966) starring Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Savithri and Kongara Jaggayya and also in Kannada as Kumkuma Rakshe (1977) starring Rajinikanth and Manjula and Malayalam as Hridayam Oru Kshethram (1976) starring Madhu and Srividya.
The title of the film was initially Arivudainambi Kaliya Perumal, the name of Rajinikanth's father in the 1980 comedy film Thillu Mullu, before the team opted to change it.
He gave Rajini a very similar kind of role in 16 Vayathinile
The third part of this movie was later remade in Tamil by Mahendran with Rajinikanth in the lead role and Revathi playing the role of the blind girl.
The film starred Rajinikanth, who worked with Bharathiraja nearly a decade after their last film 16 Vayathinile (1977).
Sridhar collaborated with Kamal Haasan after the success of the 1978 film Ilamai Oonjal Aadukirathu, which had also featured Rajinikanth.
Understanding Natarajan's potential, K. Balachandar proposed to form Kavithalayaa Productions as a joint production company and the team successfully went on to produce several successful films including those starring Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan.
In recent years, the character has inspired a sequence from Om Shanti Om where Shah Rukh Khan does a take-off, incorporating elements of Tamil legend Rajinikanth's performances.
After Sandai, Sakthi Chidambaram announced his next project called Rajathi Raja title derived from Rajinikanth's 1989 film of same name.
After this, Cho Ramaswamy (editor of Thuglak) played a vital role in bringing together the DMK-TMC coalition and obtaining actor Rajinikanth's support for it.