Bollywood actors Careers in politics: Let’s see which actors and actresses from the world of cinema have succeeded and failed on the political ‘stage’.
Indian politics has attracted many Bollywood actors. Recently actor Govinda has joined Shinde’s Shiv Sena. There is a strong possibility that Govinda will get a ticket from one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Mumbai. In 2004, Govinda contested the Lok Sabha elections and won. In 2009, he decided to stay away from politics.
BJP has fielded many artists from UP-Bihar in the election fray. Southern actors entering politics is not new. Thalapathy Vijay has recently become active in politics. In this background, let’s briefly see which actors and actresses from the world of cinema were associated with the political field…
Kangana Ranaut
Actress Kangana Ranaut has been given ticket by BJP from Mandi Lok Sabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh. For the past few months, Kangana had taken a stand in support of the BJP. Moreover, she had praised Prime Minister Modi. So there was a high possibility that she would get a ticket.
MG Ramachandran:
Actors from the Tamil film industry have a long history of entering politics. It is said that MG Ramachandran, the superstar of the south, entered politics for the first time. As an actor, he was stung, but he entered politics and rose to the post of Chief Minister. His political career was long in politics.
NT Rama Ram:
NT Ramaram also had a long political career. He has acted in more than 300 films. In 1982, he founded the Telugu Desam Party. He also became the 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. She served as Chief Minister three times between 1983 and 1994.
Jayalalithaa
The name Jayalalithaa is mainly used in southern politics. In 1977, the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu MG Ramachandran brought Jayalalithaa into politics. After that, Jayalalitha’s career continued to flourish. She became the Chief Minister for the first time on June 24, 1991. She has taken oath as chief minister six times.
Rajinikanth
Actors are worshiped like gods in the south. Tamil superstar Rajinikanth decided to enter politics in 2017. Party was also formed. But, backed out within 26 days. The party was dissolved in 2021.
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan founded a political party named Makkal Nidhi Mayyam in 2018. Currently they are trying to gain political power. He has joined hands with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin’s party for the Lok Sabha.
Thalapathy Vijay
Thalapati Vijay has founded a political party called Tamizga Vetri Kadgam. Vijay has started campaigning for the 2016 assembly elections. It remains to be seen how much success he gets.
Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada started her political career with NT Ramaram’s Telugu Desam Party. After that she joined SP and in 2019 she joined BJP. Chiranjeevi, South Star Pawan Kalyan, Suresh Gopi have also dabbled in politics.
Amitabh Bachchan
Many may not know but superstar Amitabh Bachchan was also in politics for some time. On the request of Rajiv Gandhi, he contested and won the election from Allahabad in 1984. But, at that time, he was very busy with the shooting of films. Due to this reason, he retired from politics in 1987.
Jaya Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan’s wife and actress Jaya Bachchan is a Rajya Sabha MP from Samajwadi Party since 2004. Jaya Bachchan is well known for her speeches in Parliament.
Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna, who is known as the first superstar of Bollywood, contested the election in 1991 against LK Advani. He lost at that time, but in 1992 he won by contesting the by-election from the Congress on the same Delhi seat. At that time Shatrughan Sinha was the BJP candidate against him. Shatrughan Sinha has been in politics for the past 33 years.
Hema Malini
Hema Malini is active in politics. BJP has again given ticket to Dream Girl from Mathura. She represents Mathura Lok Sabha since 2014.
Raj Babbar
Raj Babbar is named among the great leaders of Uttar Pradesh. He has been to Lok Sabha thrice and Rajya Sabha twice.
Vinod Khanna
Vinod Khanna has also been in politics for a long time. Moreover, in 2002, there was a Tourism Minister at the Centre. He has also been the Foreign Minister in 2003. This time BJP is preparing to give ticket to his wife Kavita Khanna.
Sunil Dutt
It was said that Sunil Dutt and Rajiv Gandhi had a good friendship. Sunil Dutt entered politics because of him. Sunil Dutt has been MP five times. In 2004, he was made the Minister of Youth and Sports.
Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar also tried her luck in politics. She contested the elections in 2019 against BJP’s Gopal Shetty while contesting from Congress. But, they had to accept defeat. After that she had tied Shivbandhan.
Some other artists
Bhojpuri film stars Manoj Tiwari and Ravi Kishan are well suited in politics. He has been given ticket again by BJP. Dinesh Lal Yadav is also in the Lok Sabha arena from BJP. Apart from this, actors Paresh Rawal, Mithun Chakraborty, Prakash Raj, Shabana Azmi are also seen in politics. Overall, there has been a correlation between politics and Bollywood since time immemorial.
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