Vyjayanthimala is a queen of hearts and wowed everyone in her hey day with her brilliant acting skills and drop dead gorgeous looks. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that even after she was married, she continued to get roles from filmmakers, albeit graduating to the grey-haired ones. It was the norm for actresses those days to call it quits post marriage.
Now, in what can be called as an epic throwback, Rajinikanth at an earlier function of Ashram School, which is run by his wife Latha, had recollected that Vyjayanthimala was offered the role of his tempestuous mother-in-law in Mappillai but she had declined the same saying she can’t scold Rajinikanth on screen despite the producers coming forward with a huge paycheck!
It was after her reluctance that Srividhya was signed for the same and the film turned out to be blockbuster and was even remade by Rajinikanth’s son-in-law Dhanush with Hansika Motwani and Manisha Koirala for company.