Thalapathy's Circus Elephants - wrong images in Party Flag ?

No Political Party Flag in India has elicited such massive response. Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) flag unveiled by Thalapathi Vijay at outset looked like a copy of Spain’s flag and mixed with the Kerala Govt logo. But now Kannadigas say that it is Karnataka flag with Kerala Govt logo. Yet another design expert says that that it is an ulta (reverse) of FEVICOL logo of two elephants.

Now officially the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP Chennai chapter has issued a statement saying that the elephants are a copy of their party symbol which is Blue coloured one’s and also cite Election Commission rules. They threaten with a legal complaint. Now even the elephants are under suspicion. One group says they are not one’s that take part in war and are of African origin. They say it looks like circus elephants and that of the ones that were part of Devar Films with MGR. Coming to the logo. It is said instead of Vaagai flower (Siris tree/Albizia lebbeck).. the Monkeypod tree (Raintree/Samanea saman) flower for the original Vaagai flower was used instead. Vaagai flower is worn by soldiers during victory march in ancient era. They say that mistake happened as colloquially, the monkeypod tree is called ‘Thoongumoonji Maram’. Its bright pink flower resembles the white Vaagai flower.

The anthem song composed by Thaman is similar to “Aalaporaan Tamizhan” song from Mersal (2017). The TVK anthem video like in the film has shades of yellow and red splattered throughout the song, and the word “Tamizhan” appears frequently. Cinema Murasam Editor Devi Mani says that the 32 stars on flag remind one of 32 bullets in Eelam Flag. He also says that the silhouettes of Anna and MGR in the anthem show that TVK is against DMK and AIADMK. He says that TVK is wooing the Tamils abroad and especially the Tamil origin Sri Lankans. The Vaagai flower also has another connection—Tamil Eelam, thereby positioning TVK as a Tamil Nationalist party. The Vaagai tree is also the national tree symbol of Eelam. Take the lyrics -Tamizhan kodi parakkudu, Thalaivan yugam porakkudu, Moondrezhuthu mandhiratha meendum kaalam olikkidu” meaning the flag of Tamils is flying, the era of a leader is born, the three-letter mantra chant is being heard. Significantly ,the names of MGR, Anna, and Vijay are each formed by three Tamil letters. Vivek lyrics explain the flag’s colours and symbols—the colour red from blood, the strengths of two elephants, yellow decoration, and tilaka with blue and green. It is obvious that the colours indicate the vote bank TVK wants like: red for the working class, green for Muslims, blue for Dalits, pink for women, and yellow for Hindus. Cliched Hindu- Muslim- Christian holding the flag and Vijay being untainted and friend of all from auto driver to senior citizens – women. The last two groups hate the auto drivers is a reality. Personally, I feel that if TVK goes ahead on this line, then NTK will have to face stiff competition and to a certain extent ADMK. DMK men already have dumped MGR and Anna.