R. Sarathkumar, Radikaa Sarathkumar and Jaishree Chandrasekhar led the India Day Parade with Vidya Balan and anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare in the world's largest India Day Parade held in New York on Sunday noon. The couple travelled in the American Tamil Sangam float that had a huge banner of Statue of Liberty draped in a sari. Sarath Kumar wore a traditional South Indian dress of dhoti and a khadi shirt while Radikaa came in a Kanjivaram silk sari. Prakash M Swamy, president of American Tamil Sangam and host of the South Indian stars had arranged a separate float for the stars in the parade.
The couple was loudly cheered by a large number of South Indians whose homes have access to almost all the South Indian television channels in four regional languages. There were non-stop shouts of “Supreme Star” (referring to Sarath Kumar) and “Chitti” (a character played by Radikaa in a TV serial) making the couple pleasantly surprised with the fan following on American soil. The New York Police Department (NYPD) had a tough time in controlling the surging unprecedented crowd that swelled the streets of Manhattan.
News & Photo credits - Prakash M Swamy
