By N.Thyagarajan
The Tamil Nadu state have always facing a sort of crisis for the popular figure to rule the state as the Chief Minister.
Former Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi, late Chief Ministers of the AIADMK Party --- M.G.Ramachandran and J.Jayalalithaa were once upon a time working for the promotion of film industry by writing dialogues, stories and acting. They had not reached pinnacle heights in their career in the filmdom at a stroke. They had all sweat day and night to earn name and money.
You can't simply consider becoming Chief Minister, because, you are famous person in the film industry and became known throughout the world.
For example actor Kamal Hassan and Rajini Kanth wanted to start political parties and want to contest in elections.
MGR then known as Makkal Thilakam and Puratchi Thalaivar while acting in films was propagating his motto of life through various songs and stories. Of course, this had helped the DMK Party to entrench its position in Tamil Nadu, because of MGR who had became popular through his acting career and earned lakhs and lakhs of fans. The fans had also started to follow the late Chief Minister MGR's magnanimity by closely watching his films. Similarly, the late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa who had learnt politics from her mentor, the late MGR began to serve the people, though she did not win in election at sometime, but had ruled the state for the sixth time. She had won the name and fame by doing her services to all the people, without any discrimination--- caste, creed, religion or opposition political parties. She was calling a spade always a spade and never slipped or distracked from her promises she had made at the time of election. She had also made her party men to follow her foot steps so that the AIADMK could be well ruled, by her party men even after her days.
Super Star Rajinikanth, who had also earned name and became fame through his films, had acted in films but most of the stories were bereft of the story-line which the late Chief Minister MGR had followed in his films. For example, when people approached him with any expectation, MGR as per the story-line would be helping out. He had used swords in films when the story wanted to fight him and also his audience wanted to make him fight.
One could visualize there was a big deviation in Rajini films. Though he has had excelled in acting, dancing and singing songs, his fans had viewed him and praised him only for acting. MGR always exhibited charitable mind in each and every frame of film in which he had acted.
After MGR whoever began to act as heroes could not make out the imprints of MGR, as the time had changed, people wanted different line of stories based on Love. The new comers to the film industry after MGR and SivajiGanesan reached pinnacle heights, but the audience took their films as entertainment. Whereas MGR films had created a sort of faith that he would do good things if he becomes Chief Minister. On many occasions he had proved it.
For example, MGR when seeing a rickshaw walla on road walking without slippers he had ordered them immediately. He not only bought chappel for him but for other rickshaw pullers. He had fed a lot of people who were in hunger. These incidents were absence in the lives of Kamal Hassan and Rajinikanth. hence, the depth of impression created by MGR was not created by the subsequent actors, but they had made an impression that they were good actors.]
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