But eight months later, the Karnataka High Court has acquitted Ms Jayalalithaaa and she is back.
She acknowledges MGR as one of the most important influences in her life. The other is her mother, Sandhya, an actress who fell on hard times and had to send her 15-year-old daughter to a film studio rather than college.
An accomplished dancer, Jayalalithaa trained in classical dance forms like Bharatnatyam, Mohini Attam, Kathak and Manipuri and performed all over India. She also started learning Carnatic music at the age of four and sang several songs in her own films.
The AIADMK chief was a voracious reader with a large private library and a huge collection of books. Her favourite authors are Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
Even as an actress, she would always carry books with her to the studio, and would sit quietly by herself in a corner and read between shots.
Woman, actress, Brahmin, Kannadiga. Conventional wisdom would suggest that resume is all wrong for the hard playfield of Tamil Nadu politics and in a Dravidian party. But then J Jayalalithaa’s life and career are the stuff fairy tales are made of.
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(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:readersmail.com)
