Latha Rajinikanth

Latha was born in Chennai, India in a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family.[2][3] She graduated with degree in English literature from Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai.[4]

During the 1980s, Latha worked as a playback singer in Tamil cinema. She sung a few songs in films such as Tik Tik Tik (1981) Anbulla Rajinikanth (1984). She also contributed to Rajini 25 (1999), a musical album that commemorated Rajinikanth's 25 years of his career.

In 1991, Latha founded The Ashram, a school in Velachery, Chennai, which she currently heads.[5]

Latha is the sister-in-law of Tamil playwright and film actor Y Gee Mahendran. She is also related to former film actress Vyjayanthimala.[6] Latha's brother Ravi Raghavendra is also an actor who is the father of music director Anirudh Ravichander. She married Rajinikanth, whom she met during an exclusive interview, on 26 February 1981 at Tirupati. The couple has two daughters, Aishwarya and Soundarya. Her elder daughter, Aishwarya married actor Dhanush in 2004 and they have two sons, Yathra and Linga. Her younger daughter Soundarya married Chennai based civil engineer Ashwin with whom she has a son named Ved Krishna; the couple divorced in 2017 and she remarried businessman Vishagan in 2019.

An FIR had been filed in Bengaluru against Latha for allegedly forging documents to obtain a court order, restraining media from publishing news about her dispute with a commissioned producer over selling of rights of Kochadaiiyan on 15 June 2015.[7]

Another Instance Latha Rajinikanth, wife of actor Rajinikanth, has filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court challenging the decision of the Greater Chennai Corporation to increase the monthly rent for a shop, from where an overseas travel agency was being run at C.P. Ramaswamy Road in Alwarpet, from ₹3,702 to ₹ 21,160.

Filing an affidavit on behalf of the petitioner, her authorised signatory Mohan Menon said: “I state that my business has suffered from the recent demonetisation, GST (Goods and Services Tax) and general downward trend in the business. Further, online business has also increased the competition and I am somehow running this business on meagre margins.”

Accusing the Corporation of having enhanced the monthly rent without any basis, the affidavit stated: “No method of calculation has been given as to how the Corporation of Chennai arrived at such an exorbitant figure. No yardstick has been followed. I submit that no expert committee was appointed or consulted by the Corporation officials.”

Though the petitioner sent a reply to the Corporation refusing to accept the enhancement, the zonal officer of the civic body ignored the reply and confirmed the proceedings issued by the Corporation on 23 June.

It went on to accuse the Corporation of not maintaining the shopping complex in which the shop was situated.

The zonal officer had said that the decision to enhance the rent, in consonance with the market price, for the shops situated in the shopping complex had been taken in view of the completion of the lease period of nine years. It also stated that the tenants would have to pay enhanced rent from 1 March along with service charge at the rate of 15%.[8]

As producer

• Maaveeran (1986)
• Valli (1993)

As singer

• "Netru Indha Neram" - Tik Tik Tik
• "Kadavul Ullame" - Anbulla Rajinikanth
• "Ding Dong" - Valli
• "Kukkukoo Koovum" - Valli
• "Manappenin Sathiyam" - Kochadaiiyaan[9]

As costume designer

• Valli (1993)