“Kamal Haasan: The Most Shameless Opportunist Who Deserves To Be Trashed”, The Commune, March 25, 2026
“Let us be honest about what happened on 24 March 2026. A man who spent eight years telling Tamil Nadu that its political establishment was rotten, who built an entire party on the promise of being different, cleaner, better walked into the headquarters of the party he once claimed to oppose, accepted their terms without a fight, and announced he would campaign for them for free. No seats. No symbol. No dignity. Just unconditional surrender dressed up as philosophy.
Kamal Haasan did not just betray his party workers that day. He confirmed what everyone had suspected for years: that there was never any real conviction behind MNM. Just an actor playing the role of a politician – and not even playing it well.
The Launch: All Theatre, No Substance
When Kamal Haasan launched Makkal Needhi Maiam in 2018, the production values were impeccable. The speeches were long, the vocabulary was impressive, and the ambition was presented as civilisational. He called the DMK and AIADMK two sides of the same rotten coin. He said dynasty had poisoned Tamil politics. He said Tamil Nadu deserved governance by competence, not inheritance. Crowds gathered. Cameras rolled. A generation of voters who were exhausted by the Dravidian duopoly dared to believe that this time, someone genuinely different had arrived……..”
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