All poll's a stage

We are constantly amazed by the twists and turns, the zigs and zags, the flips and flops that our politicians make, especially during election time. The closest analogy to this that one can find would be the highly developed Tamil film genre. With the 'amma' sentiment and 'thaali' sentiment you will can be assured of the most unexpected things to happen.

And that is what happens during elections too.

Arch enemies join up while bosom buddies split up. And that is just the beginning. There is also high physical drama when a well known star campaigner brings down the stage (not the house, mind you) with his not too light presence. And again, this is just the beggining. We have 35 more fun filled days to go.

The link between the film world and politics is well know and nicely documented here. And the interesting poll on this site rates Makkal Thilagam MGR as the most liked (what a surprise!) followed by 'Amma' (no surprise there!) . People seem to like Aringnar Anna more than MK (what a surprise again).

And the popularity charts may be right yet and keep going up for the AIADMK with a host of film stars joining the campaign trail, the new mother Simran being the latest. The article quotes a list as below;

What on earth is happening in Tamilnadu? Even north Indian actresses want to support ADMK! Radharavi, S S Chandran, Gundu Kalyanam, Pandian, C R Saraswati, Senthil, Vijay Kumar, Murali, Manobala, Anandraj, S V Sekhar, Radha, Ambika…half of Kodambakkam will be found in this endless list!

And soon someone pulls poor Kushboo into the fray.