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+'''Muthuvel Karunanidhi (b. 1924)'''
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+Tamil scenarist and DMK politician born in
+Tirukkuvalai, Tanjore Dist., TN. Political activist
+with the Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) from the age
+of 14; left school to become C.N. Annadurai’s
+assistant and worked on Periyar E.V.
+Ramaswamy Naicker’s paper, Kudiarasu. Led
+the 1953 Kallakkudi riots in which the DMK
+protested against the renaming of a railway
+station after a North Indian industrialist. Elected
+to the Tamil Nadu State Assembly in 1957 on a
+DMK ticket. Key figure in the anti-Hindi
+agitation of 1965, for which he was imprisoned.
+Minister for Public Works and Transport under
+Annadurai when the DMK was elected in 1967.
+Chief Minister in 1969 following Annadurai’s
+death; defeated by his former protégé MGR in
+1977. Returned to power (1988), but was
+dismissed by the Congress (I)-backed minority
+government in 1990; in the 1991 election,
+following Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, his
+party lost every seat in the state assembly
+except his own. Defeated Jayalalitha and
+returned to power in 1996. Film début at the
+Jupiter Studio, co-scripting A. Kasilingam’s
+Abhimanyu (1948) with A.S.A. Sami. First
+DMK film: Manthiri Kumari for T.R.
+Sundaram (1950). Wrote Kasilingam’s
+Maruthanattu Ilavarasi (1950), three films for
+L.V. Prasad (Manohara, 1954; Thayilla Pillai,
+1961; Iruvar Ullam, 1963) and his best-known
+film, Krishnan-Panju’s Parasakthi (1952).
+According to Ka. Thirunavukkarasu (1990), he
+scripted 57 films, e.g. S.M. Sreeramulu Naidu’s
+MGR hit Malaikallan (1954), Kasilingam’s
+Sivaji Ganesan film Rangoon Radha (1956)
+based on Annadurai’s novel, and P.
+Neelakantan’s Poompuhar (1964) and
+Poomalai (1965). Also wrote c.50 short stories
+(e.g. Kuppai Thothi/Dustbin), many speeches,
+commentaries on Tamil literature and a
+speculative archaeology of the Tamil language
+tracing it to the Sangam poets and the Indus
+Valley. Columnist for the daily Murasoli and the
+journal Kumkumam. Turned producer with
+Mekala Pics, initially with MGR, MGR’s wife
+V.N. Janaki and P.S. Veerappa (Naam, 1953);
+the partnership soon broke up leaving
+Karunanidhi proprietor with Murasoli Maran,
+the duo later expanding into the popular SUNTV
+Tamil cable channel.
+
+[[Writer]]