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Tamil Nadu potboiler

Will the Kamal Haasan-Aam Aadmi Party combine manage to fashion an alternative political discourse in the state?

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Aditi Phadnis
Will he? Won’t he? Although we are no closer to the answer, a meeting between Kamal Haasan and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal in Chennai on Thursday was unlikely to be about tourism. With his recent now-famous statement that saffron “is not my colour”, Haasan ruled out one political possibility. But has he embraced another? Hard to say.

Haasan’s comments on Tamil Nadu politics, leaders and followers in a series of engagements and a range of issues from Jallikattu and its place in Tamil culture to the state of political parties have been the subject of chatter. With
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