Edited sentence: Actors like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan andMadhavan also made a brief foray into Bollywood and earned success.In the 1930s and 1940s the industry was dominated by M.Jayalalithaa is the first actress in India to become the chief minister of a state.Kamal Haasan holds the reocrd for maximum number of Filmfare Awards.Kamal Haasan is known for having starred in the largest number of films submitted by India in contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, five out of his seven films are from Tamil.Manorama holds theGuinness record for having acted in most number of films in multiple languages.Other popular actors of the present era include, Vijay, Ajith Kumar, Vikram and Suriya.Rajinikanth is the only actor in India to perform lead roles in six regional languages.Ramachandran has the distinction of being the first actor in India to become a chief minister.Ramachandran, Sivaji Ganesan and Gemini Ganesan.Sivaji Ganesan was the first actor from India to have won a Best Actor Award abroad.The next generation saw the rise of M.Their era came to an end with the entry of Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan.Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, widely regarded as the first superstar of Tamil cinema