The first-time contestant from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a fourth-generation, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, P T Rajan, and his father, P T R Palaivel Rajan, both legends in Madurai.

President Kalam was loved by the youth of India. Something evidenced by the mass of student volunteers who have arrived in Rameswaram to mourn and to help out other mourners who have arrived in the island town to pay their last homage to India's 'Missile Man.'