Things don't appear to be going very well for Kamal Haasan. After a rather poor show at the Lok Sabha elections after much hype, he has now been relegated to the status of a Tier-3 star by the association.
Naveen Patnaik won 12 out of 21 parliamentary constituencies and 112 out of 147 assembly constituencies, a loss of a meagre 5 seats from his 2014 tally. So what explains this unparalleled success of Naveen babu in Indian politics?