Actress Shriya Saran, who has worked alongside Vijay on film sets, reflects on what she believes drove Tamil Nadu's voters to back his party TVK in the 2026 assembly elections (Credit: Shriya Saran/ Instagram) The morning after Tamil Nadu rewrote its political map, everyone had a theory on how Vijay succeeded with a historic lead. However, Shriya Saran remembered an afternoon on a film set when it was 45 degrees outside and Vijay’s fans had shown up hoping for a glimpse of him. “This was the time when I was shooting with Vijay. It was very hot. It was like 45 degrees and you cannot stand outside. It was in the month of April. His fans had come to visit him, to click photos with him, and this man stood outside his van in the heat so that people could click photos with him,” Shriya explained in an conversation with NDTV. There is nothing complicated about that image.…