The projection of Vijayakanth as the chief ministerial candidate of the alliance between his party DMDK and the PWF is yet another reinforcement of a long-established trend in Tamil Nadu and prominent film personalities were taking the helm of State affairs in the State.
Vijayakanth has further added that for the past five decades Tamil Nadu has been ruled by leading film actors and politicians who had close links with the film world. The three established actors are M.G. Ramachandran and Jayalalitha who has played opposite each other in lead roles in many films and V. N. Janaki, MGR’s wife has occupied the office of Chief Minister and all three belonged to the AIADMK Party.
Ms. Jayalalitha and Mr. Karunanidhi two of them are still in the running for the Assembly elections. Vijayakanth who has also enjoyed great popularity in the 1980s and 1990s playing hero in countless Tamil films has currently joined them aspiring for the chair of the Chief Minister.
But there were some popular stars who were not lucky in the electoral contest. Actors Vagai Chandrasekar (DMK) and Ritheesh (DMK), Ramarajan (AIADMK), Latha (MGR AIADMK), Mansoor Ali Khan (Puthiya Tamilagam) and M. Karthik (All India Forward Bloc) were in the fray in the Lok Sabha elections on different occasions in the State.
