Tamil Nadu’s cinema superstar Joseph Vijay has scripted history by bringing an end to the Dravidian duopoly that had been ruling the southern state since 1967 when the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) first came to power. The long instituted Dravidian ideology of more than half-a-century, ways of life, and life worlds that had percolated to every nook and corner of the state – cemented through the film-politics nexus and Tamil nationalism – has been breached by the political rookie’s two-year-old Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK).
