Shocking Facts About Jayalalithaa's Affair With Mentor MGR

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, was once a glamorous heroine who won millions of hearts with her strong onscreen persona on the Tamil silver screen. She made 140 films between 1961 to 1980. J Jayalalithaa and her mentor MGR together delivered 28 hit films at the box office. They also shared a special relationship off-screen until they drifted apart. 

Jayalalithaa wanted to make her relationship with MGR, who was married and 31 years older than her. But he was unwilling. Jayalalithaa was then rumored to have married Telugu actor Shobhan Babu.

After years of the rift, when MGR became the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu representing Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) In 1970, he introduced Jayalalithaa to politics. He called upon her to take on his arch-rival M Karunanidhi. But AIADMK party workers reportedly caused a rift between Jayalalithaa and MGR, foreseeing that she was getting to rise the ranks faster than them. It was being said that Jayalalithaa wanted him to nominate her as a successor to the chief ministership of the state. 

The Jayalalithaa and MGR love story came to an end, as the political rivalry ensure they did not eye to eye. In an interview on the television show Rendezvous with Simi Garewal, Jayalalithaa revealed that she was not in a relationship with MGR. She said that MGR did not make it smooth for it in politics. She paved the way for herself and rose the ladder.

The rift was forever. When MGR went for treatment to the US, Jayalalithaa did not even know about it. And when MGR was ill in hospital, Jayalalithaa was not allowed to meet her despite her letter to the Prime Minister seeking permission to meet him. Nobody knows what created the rift between them. The love-hate relationship between them grabbed many eyeballs.

With political ups and downs, Ramachandra died on 24 December 1987 at his Ramavaram Gardens residence at the age of 70. 

Jaya loved MGR truly despite being married but hated him for abandoning her.

"My early years were dominated by my mother. Later, it was MGR. I did not have a life of my own under their shadow," Jaya once revealed.