: Before ‘Thalaivi’, Jayalalithaa’s eventful life inspired the web series ‘Queen’ #IndiaNEWS Hindi movie star Kangana Ranaut celebrated her 34th birthday on March 23 with the trailer of a biopic

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Before ‘Thalaivi’, Jayalalithaa’s eventful life inspired the web series ‘Queen’ #IndiaNEWS
Hindi movie star Kangana Ranaut celebrated her 34th birthday on March 23 with the trailer of a biopic about a Southern movie star. AL Vijay’s Thalaivi traces the eventful life of J Jayalalithaa, the screen icon and Tamil Nadu’s long-serving chief minister until her death in 2016. Jayalalithaa’s reign was marked by troughs and crests – dizzying corruption allegations, media censorship, firm leadership, benevolent welfare schemes. There has never quite been a female leader like her, before or ever.Jayalalithaa’s death has left a vacuum in her party, the All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. As Tamil Nadu faces its first post-Jayalalithaa election in April, the legacy of this singular woman in a male-dominated world will be assessed all over again. The election results will be out on May 2 – over a week after the release of Thalaivi in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu on April 24. The primary audience for Vijay’s glossy production appears to be Hindi speakers, as is evident from the casting of Ranaut and other Mumbai actors, among them Bhagyashree Patwardhan. Tamil actor Arvind Swamy plays MG Ramachandran, another real-life movie star-turned-chief minister.Ranaut sees herself as a history-maker on and off the screen, a trailblazer who...Read more

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