'Aachi' Manorama, the Guinness record-holder for being the only actor in the world to have featured in more than 1,000 movies, recently met the Tamil Nadu chief minister and patron of the film industry, Kalaignar. The veteran actress met Kalaignar to take up an issue in the public interest and discussed the subject matter in detail with the latter.

Manorama had reportedly carried many 'press clippings' of news of the ever-increasing number of divorce cases that have been milling up in Family Courts in Chennai and other cities. "People tend to hide the 'truth' and marry off their impotent and HIV-infected grooms to unsuspecting and hapless girls. It's always the girls' families which get affected to a great extent, for they usually spend lakhs of rupees on their daughters' marriage only to see it getting ruined by the wrong choice of grooms," is the content of the petition that Manorama submitted to the chief minister.

The petition submitted by the actress-par-excellence went on to say that, "In order to mitigate the untold sufferings of thousands of families of these helpless girls, the government should enact a law stipulating that presenting a 'no objection certificate' from a RMP stating that both the bride and groom had no contagious/sexually transmitted diseases and are fit to lead normal familial lives is mandatory for the marriage to be solemnized at the temple/church/mosque/marriage halls."