Epic Rivalries Of Tamil Politics: From Cinema Icons To Political Titans

Politics in Tamil Nadu is never without drama. Over the decades, in fact ever since independence, larger than life political icons have clashed with one another creating moments of intense drama. Arguably some of the most extravagant rivalries of electoral politics that the country has been witness to, has been from this southern state. It has been all the more interesting since most of the Tamil political giants also straddled the world of cinema. How much more interesting can a political clash be than a film demi-god trading words with the very same person who wrote the very films that made him a star...or a screen heartthrob whose saree gets torn inside the Assembly...Tamil Nadu in politics as on celluloid thrives on stepping beyond the mundane, This is 7 decades of Epic Rivalries of Tamil Politics unfolding on NDTV Focus...