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Marudhur Gopalan Ramachandran who was on 17th January 1917 was popularly known only by his initials MGR. He was a great famous Tamil film actor, producer, director and politician who also served the country as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu consecutively for three terms.

In his days of youth Dr.MGR and his elder brother named M. G. Chakrapani became the members of a stage drama troupe to support the the needs of their family. He was greatly influenced by Gandhian ideals and hence MGR joined the party named Indian National Congress. After a few years of successful acting in plays, he made his entry into films with his debut film releasing in the year 1936 with the film Sathi Leelavathi in a supporting role.

In the late 1940's he started to do leading roles in films and ruled the Tamil cinema industry for the next three decades. He then became a member of the party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam shortly called as DMK in Tamilnadu and rose rapidly inside through its ranks.

Date Of Birth : January 17, 1917
Place Of Birth : Kandy, Sri Lanka
Zodiac Sign : Capricorn

He productively used his fame as a film hero to build a very large political base for himself. In the year 1972, he left the DMK party to form his very own party named as the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam which is shortly referred as ADMK. In the year 1977 he was voted as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu and held the record for being the first actor in India to become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He then remained as Chief minister till his last days which was in the year 1987. In the state Tamil Nadu, he had a status for philanthropism and is known to be one of the supreme political leaders and actor of the state of his time. He is one of the supreme super star of the Indian cinema . He is still been idolized by his followers with the title Puratchi Thalaivar MGR who was posthumously honored with the Bharat Ratna Award which is India's highest civilian award.

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  • He made his film debut in the year 1935 in the film titled Sati Leelavati which was directed by ace director Ellis Dungan who was an American born film director.

  • Generally starring only in romance or action based films, MGR got his great breakthrough in the the year 1947 with the film titled Rajakumaari that was written by M. Karunanidhi.

  • He has had the maximum number of all time blockbusters to his credit at that time with films like Nadodi Mannan, Enga Veetu Pillai and Adimai Pen.

  • He was shot by his fellow actor Mohan R. Radha that affected his ability to speak very clearly. He won the Best Actor National Film Award for the film titled Rickshakaran.

  • His film titled Nadodi Mannan, which was produced and directed by himself and was released in th year 1956 ran to full house in theatres. He also got the Bharata Ratna Award from the Indian Government.



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