Proving most political analyses and exit polls wrong, actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) has emerged as the single largest party in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections 2026. Despite it being their debut polls, Vijay and TVK earned a landslide victory in the state, and when the final results are out, the party is likely...
3 min readHyderabadMay 4, 2026 08:17 PM IST As Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) eyes wins in over 100 of Tamil Nadu’s 234 Assembly seats, Vijay did not head to the party office. Instead, he went to his parents’ house. Videos circulated online showed the TVK chief arriving at his parents’ residence in Chennai on Monday,...
4 min readHyderabadMay 4, 2026 06:07 PM IST In November 2018, Vijay walked into Tamil Nadu’s political imagination through a film called Sarkar. The character Vijay played, Sundar Ramaswamy, was a successful NRI businessman who flies back home for one reason: to vote. He arrives at the polling booth and is told his vote has...
3 min readHyderabadUpdated: May 4, 2026 05:11 PM IST Birthdays usually come with cake and flowers. Trisha Krishnan‘s 43rd came with an election result. As counting got underway across Tamil Nadu on Monday morning and Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) began leading in constituency after constituency, Manchu Lakshmi posted a birthday wish for Trisha that...
5 min readHyderabadMay 4, 2026 04:46 PM IST A record MG Ramachandran set in 1969 survived nearly four decades of Tamil cinema. When Adimai Penn released on 1 May 1969, it drew the largest opening-week audience any Tamil film had ever pulled. MGR produced it, and starred in it. The film was many things at...
As early counting trends from the Tamil Nadu elections indicate significant gains for Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), Nani, Kajal Aggarwal, Tiger Shroff and many others extended a warm congratulatory message to its chief, Vijay. Nani posted via X, “Congratulations @actorvijaysir. First doubted and then crowned. Happened at our home and now it’s happening in our...
Actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) is currently leading in 110 of the 234 seats in Tamil Nadu. As celebrations began based on early trends, Vijay’s frequent collaborator actor Trisha Krishnan was seen arriving at Vijay’s Chennai residence. In a video shared by news agency ANI, Trisha was seen arriving at Thalapathy Vijay’s house. Coincidentally,...
4 min readChennaiMay 4, 2026 11:23 AM IST In the wee hours of Monday morning, Trisha was seen visiting the Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam and offering prayers to Lord Sri Venkateswara Swamy. The occasion was her annual birthday ritual (May 4), but as fans joined the dots, it was also the counting day of Assembly elections...
Cinematographer Rajiv Menon has given the most detailed account yet of how the promotional video for KHxRK, the upcoming Rajinikanth-Kamal Haasan collaboration directed by Nelson Dilipkumar, was put together in just four days, and revealed that the two legends needed 20 takes before they could walk in sync on camera. In a conversation with I...
3 min readHyderabadMay 3, 2026 12:06 PM IST Director Sundar C has spoken for the first time about why he stepped away from Thalaivar 173, the Rajinikanth-starrer produced by Kamal Haasan’s Raaj Kamal Films International. In a candid interview with Behindwoods, Sundar C addressed his exit, “To be honest, it was too much pressure for...
