Only few people know these 5 things about Jayalalithaa
NEW DELHI : Here are five things you may not know about ‘Puratchi Thalaivi’ Jayalalithaa:-
1- Lowest salary as CM: She drew just Re 1/month
As a Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Amma only drew Re 1/month as salary. Jayalalithaa had refused to accept her first salary cheque as Chief Minister.
On being told that she should receive a salary as public servant, she accepted a salary of Re 1.
2- She worked in Hindi film too. Jayalalithaa appeared in over 80 Tamil movies. However, she also did one Hindi movie, ‘Izzat’, opposite superstar Dharmendra.
3 – She took bath in public. Amma once attended the Mahamakam festival in Kumbakonam, the Kumbh Mela of South India.Sections of the ghats where she was to have a ritual bath were cordoned off. Eventually there was stampede.
4- Featured in Guinness Book of World Records. Amma’s name featured in Guinness Book of World Records as in the year 1995, during her first term as CM, she organised a lavish wedding for her ‘foster son’ Sudhagaran.
According to Guinness record, over 1,50,000 guests were invited to the wedding at a 50-acre ground in Chennai.5- Jayalalithaa’s first movie was ‘adult only’
Jayaalithaa first movie – Vennira Aadai – in 1965 was released as ‘for adults only’. It was a blockbuster in Tamil cinema. As she was only 15, she herself couldn’t watch her first movie, according to a report in Financial Express.
