During the 1980s, Latha worked as a playback singer in Tamil cinema. She sung a few songs in films such as Tik Tik TikAnbulla Rajinikanth. She also contributed to Rajini 25, a musical album that commemorated Rajinikanth's 25 years of his career. In 1991, Latha founded The Ashram, a school in Velachery, Chennai, which she currently heads.
Personal life
Latha is the sister-in-law of Tamil playwright and film actorY Gee Mahendran. She is also related to former film actress Vyjayanthimala. Latha's brother Ravi Raghavendra is also an actor who is the father of music directorAnirudh Ravichander. She married Rajinikanth, whom she met during an exclusive interview, on 26 February 1981 at Tirupati. The couple has two daughters, Aishwarya and Soundarya. Her elder daughter, Aishwarya married actor Dhanush in 2004 and they have two sons, Yathra and Linga. Her younger daughter Soundarya married Chennai based civil engineer Ashwin with whom she has a son named Ved Krishna; the couple divorced in 2017 and she remarried businessman Vishagan in 2019.
An FIR had been filed in Bengaluru against Latha for allegedly forging documents to obtain a court order, restraining media from publishing news about her dispute with a commissioned producer over selling of rights of Kochadaiiyan on 15 June 2015.
'''Rent issues'''
Latha operates a shop on CP Ramaswamy Road, widely regarded as the city's prime real estate. Operating from a building owned by Chennai Corporation, Latha has for the past 25 years run a travel agency called "Travel Exchange India". The city Corporation recently increased the rent from ₹ 3702 to ₹ 21,160 per month. The Madras HC dismissed the petition filed on Latha Rajinikanth's behalf and ordered the Corporation to take ownership of the property in a month if the due rental was not received. A school run by Latha Rajinikanth in Chennai was locked up by the landlord of the building on August 2017, who claimed he had not received two rent of ₹ 2 crore. The owner said in 2002 he leased out the school ground to be used. He said that over a year ago he had filed a case against the management of the school because they had not paid the rent amounting to ₹ 10 crore.
