How a film star won in the Indian state

Analysts say he is entering a landscape still dominated by the DMK and the AIADMK – a duopoly that mostly appears stable on paper, yet shows signs of fatigue on the ground. That, they argue, is opening space for new political experiments – and for figures like Vijay to test how far star power can…

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