Ramachandran groomed other young leaders of his party for political responsibility, including the actress Jayalalithaa, with whom he was said to share a great professional rapport. She played no role and took little interest in his political activities or in matters of state. Janaki was at his side throughout, but only as a devoted wife. He remained Chief Minister from that time until the day of his death in 1987.
Ramachandran swept the elections of 1977 and took office as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Ramachandran (who had no children by any of his wives) is alleged to have taken an affectionate interest in the well-being of his step-son Surendran. Janaki, who had been relegated to less significant film roles as she aged, withdrew from films and devoted herself to domesticity. They petitioned for divorce on grounds of adultery, and secured a divorce which ended their marriage of more than 20 years. Ganapathi and Janaki both knew that they could not live with each other, both of them had built other lives for themselves, and their son Surendran was then over 20 years old. Janaki and her husband Ganapathi had never become reconciled to each other, although they still remained married. Ramachandran had been married twice before this but both his wives had died of illnesses by this time. Soon, Janaki and Ramachandran fell in love. The first film where the two acted together was Mohini (1948), which was the first real blockbuster for both of them. 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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