Today is the 85th birth anniversary of legendary South Indian actor Mahanati Savitri.

Ganesan, who was born in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram town, left home at the age of 7 to join a theatre group.

She was one of the few heroines in Bollywood who could carry a film on her own.

Walls plastered with colourful posters of the superstar, massive Rajini cut-outs, and firecrackers are a thing of the past.

Consequent to Jayalalithaa's appeal to the Centre to declare the rains and floods "national disaster," the government declared it a "calami...