2019 - MG Ramachandran Birth Centenary

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In the second release ceremony, the coins commemorating M G Ramachandran were released. Actually to be released in 2017 but got delayed and released on 102nd Birth Anniversary. This is the reason the coins have circulation denomination as the Gazette notification was in 2017.

The coin and the details of the set are;

Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (17 January 1917 – 24 December 1987), popularly known as M.G.R., was an actor, filmmaker and politician who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for ten years between 1977 and 1987. He was popularly known as "Makkal Thilagam" (People's King) as he was popular with the masses.

In his youth, MGR and his elder brother, M. G. Chakrapani, became members of a drama troupe to support their family. Influenced by Gandhian ideals, MGR joined the Indian National Congress. After a few years of acting in plays, he made his film debut in the 1936 film Sathi Leelavathi in a supporting role. By the late 1940s he graduated to lead roles and for the next three decades dominated the Tamil film industry. He became a member of the C. N. Annadurai-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and rapidly rose through its ranks, using his enormous popularity as a film star to build a large political base. In 1972, three years after Annadurai's death, he left the DMK, now led by Karunanidhi, MGR's once friend and now rival, to form his own party—the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). Five years later, he steered an AIADMK-led alliance to victory in the 1977 election, routing the DMK in the process. He became Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the first film actor to become a chief minister in India. Except for a six-month interregnum in 1980, when his government was overthrown by the Union government, he remained as chief minister till his death in 1987, leading the AIADMK to two more electoral triumphs in 1980 and 1984

Release Function:

17-Jan-2019: By Chief Minister K. Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O. Paneerselvam at a function held in Dr. MGR Medical University Complex, Guindy, Tamil Nadu