| 'Thala'
and 'Thalapathy' serious about elections!! |
May
09, 2006 |
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If there is one good thing that all
our film stars do regularly, it is
the casting of their votes during
elections. This election season too
saw a galaxy of stars, joining the
queue of patient voters at different
places in the city, like dutiful citizens,
to exercise their franchise. Such
occasion also happens to be a good
photo opportunity for the eager beaver
photographers and of course, also
for the TV crew who are always hungry
for a few minutes of footage. |
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The
first one to be spotted was Vijayakanth
at the Kaveri Rangan School at Saligramam.
Speaking to the media who had gathered
there Vijayakanth said, “A silent
revolution is going to take place,
which you will know once the results
are out.” He left immediately
for Vridhachalam, from where he is
contesting. Saligramam’s star
voter Ilaya Thalapathy Vijay came
to polling booth to cast his vote,
along with his father SA Chandrasekhar,
wife Sangeetha and mother Shobha early
in the morning. |
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Another star to arrive at the earliest
was Actor Ajith - in his new pony-tailed
look- at Government School at Kuppam
Road near Thiruvanmayur.
He
came around 7.30 am to avoid the
distractions from his fans. Khushboo
and her husband Sundar C, went to
the Government High School at R.A.
Puram at around 8 am and cast their
votes. There were quite a few murmurs
among the voters about the way Khushboo
was allowed to jump the queue.
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At 8.30 came Sneha, along with her
sister, at the Research Foundation
booth at Teynampet. She had taken
a three-day break from her shooting
so that she could be in Chennai at
the time of elections.
At 10.30 am actor Suriya came along
with his brother ‘Paruthiveeran’
Karthi and his father ‘evergreen’
Sivakumar to vote at the Hindi Prachara
Sabha in T.Nagar. |
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Hindi Prachara Sabha saw another celebrity
voter around noon and this time it
was director Shankar. It was said
that Rajini, Shankar and Raju Sundaram
had rushed from their shooting at
Hyderabad to Chennai especially for
voting. Preetha Vijayakumar and her
director husband Hari too arrived
around the same time.
Actor couple R. Sarath Kumar and Radhika,
much in the news recently for changing
camps, turned up at around 11.30 a.m.
to vote at Nellai Nadar School in
Kottivakkam. |
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Comedian
Vivek was spotted at Jai Gopal Garodia
School around 12 noon and upcoming
actor Arya was seen in the Valliammal
School voting booth at Anna Nagar.
Kollywood stars may have their share
of critics but one thing you can’t
them accuse them of is not participating
in the democratic processes of the
country. The fact that the stars were
able to make it to the voting booths,
despite having busy schedules and
travel engagements planned long before,
should come as a heartening piece
of news even to the most diehard critics
of the film world. |
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