Why Actor Mohanlal Cannot Turn Out To Be Politician Mohanlal
Bengaluru: Is southern superstar Mohanlal set to contest the Lok Sabha election from Kerala this 12 months? The answer, for now, is a agency "no".
Mohanlal emphatically laid all rumours to rest, insisting that his audience and movies are his first priority.
"Politics just isn't my cup of tea. I all the time wish to stay an actor," the actor told The Times of India last week. "In politics, lots of people depend on you and it’s not easy. Also, it’s not a topic that I do know rather a lot about and so, I have no inclination whatsoever."
Mohanlal’s remarks come amid intense hypothesis that the actor would contest elections on a BJP ticket. But in addition they come in the wake of pressure from his fan associations, which had threatened to boycott his motion pictures if he joined the BJP.
Vimal Kumar, the president of the Kerala Mohanlal Fans and Cultural Welfare Association, one of the largest such bodies, had declared that there could be statewide protests if the actor took the political plunge.
"He has so many different obligations however not in politics," Kumar told ThePrint. "The Mohanlal fans associations really feel he is a misfit in politics. We imagine that political parties are utilizing his name to add glamour to their organisations."
Unnikrishnan of the All Kerala Mohanlal Fans Club mentioned the star, fondly often known as Lal-ettan (ettan means brother), had assured them that he received’t enter politics.
"We had a dialogue with him and he assured us that he's not coming into politics," Unnikrishnan said. "We love his work and we count on him to offer us more and more. The fans association respect him immensely for considering our viewpoint on his becoming a member of politics."
Senior film critic Sreedharan Pillai told ThePrint that Mohanlal’s career would take a battering if he joins the BJP.
"In Kerala, he (Mohanlal) can't afford to be associated with the BJP because if he does, his film profession can be gone. His fans are spread across the state but over 50 to 60 per cent of them belong to the Malabar and Travancore areas, which are predominantly Muslim," Pillai explained.
"The moment he joins the BJP or shows his allegiance to them, his film career might be finished. I don’t see him coming into politics."
Not the first clarification
Mohanlal has had to clarify for the umpteenth time that he has no political ambitions however a lot of the speculation is driven by BJP leaders in the state and his own actions, notably on social media.
On 1 February, O. Rajagopal, the BJP’s solely legislator in Kerala, told NDTV that the party had approached Mohanlal to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram, his hometown. The sitting MP here is the Congress’ Shashi Tharoor.
Before Rajagopal, state BJP chief P.S. Sridharan Pillai had acknowledged that the party can be inducting big names together with a "highly decorated" actor.
The remarks got here in the wake of Mohanlal tweeting a photograph with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mohanlal had called on the PM to invite him to an occasion that was to be hosted by the Vishwa Santhi Basis, a charity organisation that he runs.
Mohanlal emphatically laid all rumours to rest, insisting that his audience and movies are his first priority.
"Politics just isn't my cup of tea. I all the time wish to stay an actor," the actor told The Times of India last week. "In politics, lots of people depend on you and it’s not easy. Also, it’s not a topic that I do know rather a lot about and so, I have no inclination whatsoever."
Mohanlal’s remarks come amid intense hypothesis that the actor would contest elections on a BJP ticket. But in addition they come in the wake of pressure from his fan associations, which had threatened to boycott his motion pictures if he joined the BJP.
Vimal Kumar, the president of the Kerala Mohanlal Fans and Cultural Welfare Association, one of the largest such bodies, had declared that there could be statewide protests if the actor took the political plunge.
"He has so many different obligations however not in politics," Kumar told ThePrint. "The Mohanlal fans associations really feel he is a misfit in politics. We imagine that political parties are utilizing his name to add glamour to their organisations."
Unnikrishnan of the All Kerala Mohanlal Fans Club mentioned the star, fondly often known as Lal-ettan (ettan means brother), had assured them that he received’t enter politics.
"We had a dialogue with him and he assured us that he's not coming into politics," Unnikrishnan said. "We love his work and we count on him to offer us more and more. The fans association respect him immensely for considering our viewpoint on his becoming a member of politics."
Senior film critic Sreedharan Pillai told ThePrint that Mohanlal’s career would take a battering if he joins the BJP.
"In Kerala, he (Mohanlal) can't afford to be associated with the BJP because if he does, his film profession can be gone. His fans are spread across the state but over 50 to 60 per cent of them belong to the Malabar and Travancore areas, which are predominantly Muslim," Pillai explained.
"The moment he joins the BJP or shows his allegiance to them, his film career might be finished. I don’t see him coming into politics."
Not the first clarification
Mohanlal has had to clarify for the umpteenth time that he has no political ambitions however a lot of the speculation is driven by BJP leaders in the state and his own actions, notably on social media.
On 1 February, O. Rajagopal, the BJP’s solely legislator in Kerala, told NDTV that the party had approached Mohanlal to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram, his hometown. The sitting MP here is the Congress’ Shashi Tharoor.
Before Rajagopal, state BJP chief P.S. Sridharan Pillai had acknowledged that the party can be inducting big names together with a "highly decorated" actor.
The remarks got here in the wake of Mohanlal tweeting a photograph with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mohanlal had called on the PM to invite him to an occasion that was to be hosted by the Vishwa Santhi Basis, a charity organisation that he runs.