<P> The actor and politician M.R. Radha and MGR had worked in 25 films together . On 12 January 1967, Radha and a producer visited MGR to talk about a future film project . During the conversation, M.R. Radha stood up and shot MGR in his left ear twice and then tried to shoot himself . </P> <P> After the operation, MGR's voice changed . Since he had been shot in his ear, MGR lost hearing in his left ear and had ringing in the ear problems . These further surfaced in 1983 when he had kidney problems . When Sinnappa Devar paid his first visit to see MGR at the hospital after the shooting incident he paid MGR an advance for MGR's next movie . After getting released from the hospital and finishing Arasakattalai, MGR acted in Devar's movie Vivasaayee against doctors' advice . Due to the operation, MGR's speaking parts in the movie Kaavalkaaran were reduced . This was the only movie in which MGR spoke with old and new voices between scenes: MGR was acting in the film Kaavalkaran in 1967 opposite J. Jayalalithaa when the shooting occurred . </P> <P> Petralthaan Pillaya was the last movie of MGR - MR Radha together . Shooting ended just few days before MGR was shot . The bullet was permanently lodged in his neck and his voice damaged . Within hours of the shooting, some 50,000 fans had gathered at the hospital where MGR had been taken . People cried in the streets . For six weeks, he lay in the hospital as fans awaited each report of his health . He was visited by a steady stream of commoners and luminaries of film industry, polity and bureaucracy . From his hospital bed, he conducted his campaign for the Madras Legislative Assembly . He won twice the number of votes polled by his Congress rival and the largest vote polled by any candidate for the Assembly . </P> <P> In 1972, DMK leader Karunanidhi started to project his first son M.K. Muthu in a big way in film and politics . Understanding the tactics played by Karunanidhi to corner him, MGR started to claim that corruption had grown in the party after the demise of Annadurai and in a public meeting asked for the financial details of the party to be publicized, which enraged the leadership of DMK . Consequently, MGR was expelled from the party as per Karunanidhi's plan . </P>

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