Updated Mar 10, 2021 | 23:58 IST
Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan announced the first list of 70 party candidates for the April 6 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan. | Photo Credit: Twitter
Key Highlights
While MNM will contest on 154, the AISMK and TR Paarivendhar’s IJK will contest on the remaining 80 seats – 40 seats each
The Tamil Nadu assembly elections will be held in single-phase polling on April 6
The counting of votes will take place on May 2
Chennai: Makkal Needhi Maiam founder Kamal Haasan on Wednesday announced the first list of 70 party candidates for the April 6 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, fielding, among others, a former associate of ex-President, the late APJ Abdul Kalam.
SeevagaVazhuthi with actor-politician Kamal Haasan and the string art portrait | Photo Credit:
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SeevagaVazhuthi spends several hours with nails and threads to create string art portraits, a nascent art form. His recent work involves Kamal Haasan and 13,000 nails
Actor-politician Kamal Haasan stares out of a wooden board in an intricate eight feet tall portrait; created by Coimbatore-based artist SK Seevaga Vazhuthi, this is a string art of the veteran actor made on a grid of 13,000 nails. “It took me three days just to hammer the nails on the board,” he says.
Black threads criss-cross around nails, and the result is a larger-than-life portrait the product of 250 hours of labour over 28 days. It is a fan’s tribute to an icon, someone whom I have admired from my childhood ,” says Seevaga, noting how dinner time conversations at his home still includes Kamal versus Rajini debates.“ I belong to Kamal sir’s camp,” he laughs.
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