Abhay Deol too believes that actors willing to do good for the country should join politics.
“If there are people (from Bollywood) who are willing to make a change in the system, then they can go ahead. There is nothing wrong with that.
People from everywhere should participate in cleaning the system.”
The names that successfully traded their movie fame for great political power mostly belong to the South. In fact, Tamil Nadu has been ruled by film-stars and personalities from Tamil cinema since the late 1960s.
MG Ramachandran (MGR), who had his origins in DMK, formed his own party AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) and took it to great heights. He had an uninterrupted stay in power for 10 years that ended only with his death in 1987.
