Former chief minister MGR's 103 birth anniversary celebrated across Tamil Nadu today, January 17. Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi Palanisami, deputy CM O Panneerselvam, and other ministers paid floral tributes to MGR's statue in the AIADMK party office today. MGR photo was kept in many nook and corners of Tamil Nadu, and ordinary people also paid tribute to the great leader of Tamil Nadu.
MGR is more like an icon in Tamil Nadu. From an ordinary extra artist in the Tamil film industry until the late 1940s, he became Tamil Nadu 3rd chief minister in 1977. From his first big break in the movie Manthira Kumari in 1950, nothing stopped him in his acting and political career to become the chief minister. He occupied his post until his death in 1987. He still remembered by many ordinary people across the state who worship his photo in many streets with garland and other rituals.
Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran was born in Kandi on January 17 1917. He relocated to Tamil Nadu and acted in a drama troop along with his brother MG Chakrapani. Then moved to the cinema and became a cultural icon that no one can take his place. Then it was politics where he only saw success until his sad demise in 1987.