CHENNAI: His incoherent speech and fetish to abuse his party men are legendary by now, but Vijayakant would have never imagined that the ship that he captains would sink so low that he himself would get drowned in the sea of politics.
Known as 'Captain' for his brave roles in his reel life, the actor-turned-politician would have realised on Thursday that his star power cannot always win him an election.
He was lucky in 2006 when he entered the electoral fray for the first time from Virudachalam in Vilupuram district as people may have elected him in going just by his stellar, larger-than-life performance in films either as a hero cop or an uber-honest reformer of society.
In the next elections that he contested in 2011, the actor survived to emerge victorious in neighbouring Rishivandiyam largely because of the strength of his being in the alliance with AIADMK and the Left parties.
But, the greed to steer the ship all alone with an eye on the state's top job of Chief Minister sees him marooned now, exactly ten years after the people of Tamil Nadu gave him an opportunity to emerge as an alternative to the DMK and AIADMK.
