Overview
- Manu Joseph, a writer who says he studied with C Joseph Vijay, posted on X Monday calling the new chief minister’s claim of growing up poor “bulls**t” following Sunday’s maiden speech.
- He said they were classmates in the third standard at Loyola School in Chennai, presenting the tie as firsthand knowledge of Vijay’s upbringing.
- Joseph argued that Vijay’s father, filmmaker S A Chandrasekhar, set up his film career and that brief money trouble is not what he called “Tamil-grade poverty.”
- In his swearing-in address, Vijay said he knows “what poverty is and what hunger is,” cast himself as “one among you,” and vowed not to take “even a single paisa” of public money.
- Deccan Chronicle noted Vijay began as a child actor and won early lead roles in films directed by his father, a history that aligns with Joseph’s claim of industry access.