Take care of your health: Rajinikanth to Karunanidhi

A day after telling chief minister Jayalalithaa that the state was "saved" after her party won the recent assembly polls, Tamil superstar Rajnikanth today spoke to DMK chief M Karunanidhi, asking him to focus on his health and "not to consider anything else."

"You have faced so many ups and downs in life. It is important that you take care of your health. You should not consider anything (else) big," Rajnikanth told Karunanidhi in a telephonic conversation.

A DMK release said that the 88-year-old party patriarch expressed happiness at the improvement of Rajnikanth's health, who was discharged from a Singapore hospital yesterday.

In his first interaction with Jayalalithaa after he was discharged, the superstar had said that the state had been "saved" following her massive mandate, according to a state government release yesterday.

The DMK suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of AIADMK-led front in the April 13 assembly polls, that saw the party pushed to a third spot in the state Assembly, even failing to qualify to become the principal opposition party.

Rajiinikanth, who had not been keeping well for sometime, was hospitalised in Chennai twice for different health conditions, including respiratory problems and was later shifted to Singapore for treatment for a reported kidney ailment.