Photograph: Kind courtesy Vignesh Shivan/Instagram
Poes Garden is likely one of the most unique addresses in Chennai.
Quite just a few celebrities reside right here, the most recent of whom will probably be Nayanthara and her household.
Photograph: A Ganesh Nadar
The Lady Superstar lately purchased a four-bedroom residence in a under-construction constructing on the finish of the street.
The neighbourhood is extremely clear.
There aren’t any retailers, at the same time as the remainder of Chennai is filled with them.
So who will probably be Nayanthara’s neighbour?
Photograph: A Ganesh Nadar
Megastar Rajinikanth has been dwelling at Poes Garden for years, and his house — Vrindavan 18 — is suitably giant.
Interestingly, whereas this {photograph} was being taken, Rajinikanth was not at house. He was, actually, in Bengaluru visiting the bus depot the place he labored as a conductor a long time in the past, earlier than he turned an actor.
He might have given Tamil cinema its greatest hit in Jailer, however he certain hasn’t forgotten his roots.
Poes Garden was as soon as house to the girl who dominated Tamil Nadu with an iron fist for a few years.
J Jayalalithaa had a profitable movie profession earlier than she entered politics, and her house — Veda Nilayam or the ‘abode of the Vedas’ — nonetheless occupies satisfaction of place within the space.
Since she handed away in December 2016, her niece Deepa has been visiting it twice per week.
The AIADMK tried to show this home right into a museum, however the courts dominated in favour of Jayalalithaa’s brother’s youngsters.
