Elected on numerous occasions to the office of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, this Indian Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam political party leader is also notable as a screenwriter, poet, essayist, journalist, fiction writer, songwriter, and playwright. His first politically themed film, Parasakthi, established him as a person of great stature within both the Indian political arena and the Tamil film industry. He first entered the Tamil Nadu Assembly in the late 1950s.
