Avvai Shammugam Salai in Chennai’s Royapettah area is plastered with two faces of the AIADMK’s biggest leaders – past and present. Looking at the two watches stare back at you from all three dimensions, it’s a little hard to figure out whose birthday it is.

On MGR’s 99th birthday celebrations – posters of him and current party chief J Jayalalithaa have been put up all over the road. Souvenirs are being sold in stalls set up for the occasion. Cadres danced and celebrated as party chief J Jayalalithaa came to the office to pay tributes.

The noise and energy of the celebrations at MGR’s birthday have been caught in these pictures by Nishanth Krishnan.

The merrymaking by the party of course did cause inconvenience to many commuting on these roads.