Ajith Kumar reacts to Karur stampede at Vijay’s TVK rally: We are all responsible

Tamil superstar Ajith Kumar has reacted to the Karur stampede that claimed 39 lives. The rally, organised by the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) led by enactment president and superstar Vijay, was held connected September 27, 2025.

Ajith, talking to The Hollywood Reporter India, said that radical contiguous “have go obsessed with gathering a assemblage to amusement their clout.” Most of the victims from the tragic incidental were betwixt 18 and 30 years of age.

Though helium didn’t marque a nonstop mention, Ajith said that his modern Vijay unsocial isn’t liable for the incident. “That idiosyncratic unsocial isn’t responsible. We are each responsible, including the media,” helium said.

“You person a assemblage that goes to ticker a cricket match, but you don’t spot it happening it there. Why is it happening lone with movie personalities? These incidents task the movie manufacture successful a atrocious light.”

Ajith further expressed, “Yes, we privation the emotion of the people. That’s what we enactment for. We enactment agelong hours connected sets, wounded our body, walk sleepless nights, conflict slump and enactment distant from household for their (fans) love. But, we don’t privation for these benignant of incidents.“

The histrion called the stampede “a corporate failure.” “We are liable for this, including myself.” He besides stated that signifier of gathering a ample assemblage shouldn’t beryllium encouraged. “There are different ways of expressing love. Media shouldn’t promote things specified arsenic the first-day-first-shows (FDFS). With a state of 1.4 cardinal people, gathering a assemblage is simply a nary brainer.”

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Responding to the incident, Vijay had said that helium had never, successful his life, experienced a concern arsenic achy arsenic the 1 successful Karur. The histrion had besides said that if Chief Minister M.K. Stalin wished to “take revenge”, it should beryllium directed astatine him and not astatine members of his party.