Chennai’s love of First Day First Show, actors, silver screen, Kodambakkam and all that is filmy

For some reason, FDFS is always associated with male matinee idols. Screen goddesses may have their fans, but they never get together to celebrate the way those of vathyar/nadigar thilagam/superstar/ulaganayagan/ilaya thalapathi/thala do. Certainly, by the 1960s, the Tamil tradition of fans of MGR and Sivaji thronging theatres for FDFS had been well established