On 6th December 2016, Superstar Rajinikanth condoled the death of AIADMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, describing her as a "brave daughter" whom the country had lost.

"Not just Tamil Nadu but India has lost a brave daughter. I pray to God to rest her soul in peace," he tweeted.

Jayalalithaa's handwritten letter stating she rejected heroine role in Billa & mentions our Thalaivar as Tamil Screen's Superstar!​

Just a couple of years before she kick-started her journey in politics, Jayalalithaa had written a letter in response to an article, which suggested that she was not getting good offers in films. Her letter to one Piousji of Khaas Baat has surfaced online after she passed away on Monday in Chennai. It was written on a Poes Garden letterhead and dated June 10, 1980, the year superstar Rajinikanth’s blockbuster film Billa released.

She had made it clear that she was not struggling to stage a comeback. “In fact, I have been turning down some excellent offers. Perhaps you don’t know that the heroine’s role in Balaji’s ‘Billa’, opposite Rajinikanth, was first offered to me. It was only after I refused to do the film, that Balaji signed Sripriya for the role,” she wrote in the letter.

“Everybody knows that Balaji is one of the foremost film producers in India today, and Rajinikanth is Tamil screen’s superstar. If I am capable of turning down such a dazzling offer, does that not prove conclusively that I am not in the least struggling to stage a come-back?” she added.