Many of her hits were in films where her future husband, Ramachandran, played the lead role, and she played either the heroine ( Marudhanaattu Ilavarasi) or a major supporting role ( Raja Mukthi, Velaikkaari etc.). She starred in more than 25 movies including Mohini (1948), Raja Mukthi, Velaikaari, Aiyiram Thalaivangiya Aboorva Chintamani, Devaki and Marudhanaattu Ilavarasi. Janaki became a moderately successful actress in the late 1940s. Ramachandran, with whom she had no children. Later, in 1963, she married the Tamil cinema actor M. Her first husband was Ganapathy Bhat whom she married in 1939. Her mother, Narayani Amma, belonged to Vaikom and was of a Keralite matrilineal caste. Her father, Rajagopal Iyer, was a Tamil Brahmin hailing from Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, and was the brother of Papanasam Sivan, the musician and composer. Janaki was born in the town of Vaikom in Kottayam district of Travancore into a family with ties to both Tamil Nadu and Kerala. She was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for 24 days from 7 January 1988, when her cabinet and the state assembly were collectively dissolved by the Government of India due to failures relating to law and order. She was the third wife of the actor and politician M. Janaki, was an Indian politician and activist of Tamil Nadu. Janaki Ramachandran (30 November 1923 –, née Vaikom Narayani Janaki), commonly known as V. Vaikom, Kottayam, Travancore Kingdom (now in Kerala, India)
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