In the lead-up to Tamil Nadu film superstar Vijay’s stunning election victory in his state this week on his maiden try, various voices from the decades-old incumbent party he sought to unseat blasted him for hubris.The refrain was this: You may be the state’s biggest, most bankable action hero, but what makes you think that will help you become chief minister in just one try?“Yes, you will win, and the rest of us who have been running political parties for 80 years will go off and eat our popsicles,” one popular surrogate of the now-defeated Chief Minister M.K. Stalin bellowed…



