Rather, it was her weight gain, attributed to a milieu of physical ailments, that suddenly ended Jaya's movie career in the mid-1970s. That way, yes, it may be difficult for younger viewers, and even others, to relate Kangana Ranaut to a plumper Jayalalithaa, as the latter looked during her political years. It's anybody's guess why Director A L Vijay and his team did not choose the more popular referential term 'Amma' - which is also more reverential than for any political leader in the country - for the title.įor the eighties and nineties kids, 'Amma' may have resonated better than 'Thalaivi', but that is beside the point, if the film-maker is able to immerse the viewer in his story-telling and visual captures. In Tamil, the word Thalaivi refers to a woman leader, the male equivalent being Thalaivar. With the campaign for the state assembly election heating up ahead of the April 6 vote, clearly, the trailer has the potential to take the message of the film - rather, the film as a message - forward, when it hits the screen (whether in cinema halls or other platforms, is for the pandemic to decide of course).

If the makers of Thalaivi, the multi-lingual biopic on Tamil Nadu's most charismatic politician, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, were waiting for the launch of the movie's trailer, they could not have chosen a better time. Photograph: Kind courtesy Kangana Ranaut/Twitter

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