His star power did not diminish even after he was shot by fellow actor M.R.Radha, affecting Movies like Madurai Veeran, a champion of the Tamil Devars. For the next twenty-five years he remained the biggest celebrity in Tamil cinema and the most famous and worshiped His movies were the medium of communicationįor the Dravidian movement. He rose to stardom by playing characters that portrayed him as the saviour of the poor. Making his film debut in 1935, in the film Sti Leelavathi, directed by Ellis Dungan, an American born film director, MGR did not attain great popularity until he got his big breakthrough in the 1947 film Rajakumari which was a super hit making him a top hero in Kollywood and one of the most successful in Indian Cinema history, the script for Rajakumari was written by Karunanidhi.
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