After TVK moves towards majority mark to form government in Tamil Nadu, party founder Vijay and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu cinema veteran N. An interesting similarity emerged between T. Rama Rao (NTR). Vijay has become the second person after Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder NTR to achieve electoral success within two years of forming his party.

Late Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran founded his party, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in 1972, but he came to power in Tamil Nadu in 1977. Counting of votes for the April 23 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu began on Monday, with Vijay’s TVK seen taking the lead over its Dravidian rivals DMK and AIADMK. The party needs 118 MLAs to form the government in the 234-member assembly.

Within just nine months of forming his party, NTR ended the 27-year-old Congress rule by winning a landslide victory in the 1983 Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, after which he became the Chief Minister on January 9, 1983. Vijay, who formed his own party two years ago, has once again proved that film popularity can be converted into political success, although many other stars could not do so.

Megastar Chiranjeevi also organized a party

It is common for film stars to enter politics in South India, but many actors could not maintain their political presence for long. Superstar Chiranjeevi had founded his own party Praja Rajyam in 2008, which merged with the Congress in 2011. Praja Rajyam contested the 2009 assembly elections and won 18 seats in the 294-member Andhra Pradesh Assembly. Later Megastar Chiranjeevi stayed away from active politics. Chiranjeevi’s brother Pawan Kalyan founded the Jana Sena Party in 2014, but did not contest elections that year. He contested the elections in 2019, but lost from both the seats. Only one candidate from his party won.

However, in 2024, he performed brilliantly in alliance with Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and his party won all the 21 seats on which it contested.

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Kamal Haasan also lost the election

In Tamil Nadu, veteran actor Kamal Haasan founded Makkal Needhi Mayyam in 2018. He contested the 2021 assembly elections from Coimbatore South, but lost to Ulaganayagan by a small margin. He later joined DMK and became a Rajya Sabha member in 2025. Vijayakanth, another popular Tamil actor, founded the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMK) in 2005. He was known as ‘Captain’.

Vijayakanth won from Vriddhachalam seat

DMDK performed well in its first election in 2006 and Vijayakanth won from Vriddhachalam seat. In the 2011 elections, he defeated J. Formed an alliance with Jayalalithaa led AIADMK and became the leader of the opposition. Vijayakanth died in December 2023 and his party is now part of the DMK-led alliance.

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