It was the handywork of the ‘Kollam Nanbans’, a fan group based out of southern Kerala’s Kollam district. Vijay in Kerala is far bigger than Vijay in TN.” (SIC)Īnd if that’s not proof enough, the star’s tallest cut-out (tallest in the world at the time), towering at a massive 175-feet, was not constructed for a theatre in Tamil Nadu. Every time I talk to kids here I use my pic with Vijay as a trump card to make them listen to me and address their issues. He wrote, “Many Malayali kids and students in Wayanad do not understand Tamil. And its not just the politicians, Wayanad Sub-Collector Umesh Keshavan made news last year when his Facebook post spoke about the actor’s popularity among his district’s tribal children.
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Back in February, PC George, the MLA from Poonjar in Kottayam district, raised many eyebrows when he claimed during a television debate that Vijay had more fans in Kerala than Malayali megastars Mammootty and Mohanlal. The hashtag itself suggests that Kerala is Vijay’s (or Thalapathy/Commander as he is called) fortress, a market very few non-Malayali stars have been able to penetrate.īut his popularity isn’t limited to social media alone. So if Kaththi found a re-release in Palakkad, the town of Muvattupuzha, east of Kochi, got a special screening of Vijay’s 2012 blockbuster Thuppakki. A little digging and it became clear that the hashtag was part of a mega event to organise dozens of simultaneous screenings of the actor’s films across the State. A week before the 22nd of June, actor Vijay’s 45th birthday, the hashtag #ThalapathyFortKerala started trending across Kerala and Tamil Nadu.