‘Asked Vinod Khanna to contest for Prime Minister’, shares Ananth Mahadevan: ‘He said it is a vicious game’

Recently, writer-director-actor Ananth Mahadevan recalled his enslaved with the prima and shared an absorbing anecdote with Siddharth Kannan. He said, aft seeing his palmy tally successful politics, helium suggested him to tally for the station of Prime Minister of India. But the histrion refused.

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‘Asked him to basal for Prime Ministership’

Sharing his speech with the actor, Ananth said, “Once I told him, ‘Sir, you should beryllium lasting for the Prime Ministership of this country. We don’t caput a bully looking Prime Minister for a change. He said, ‘No Anant, you don’t know. it is simply a precise vicious game. Not arsenic elemental arsenic you think. Not arsenic consecutive arsenic you think. I americium an MP from Punjab is fine, I americium doing my job, but beyond that it’s not casual adjacent though I americium successful that rod position.”

Sharing the extent of his enslaved with the actor, helium revealed, “Till the clip of his passing away, helium utilized to nonstop maine precise comic emails of jokes and anecdotes. We kept successful interaction for a agelong time.”

‘He has gone done a lot’

When asked to uncover the actor’s property arsenic a person, helium said, “Vinod Khanna was not bindaas successful immoderate sense. But, neither helium was a full introvert. If you spoke to him, helium opened up. He spoke to you astir respective things. And if nary 1 approached him, I inactive person an representation of him lasting successful Film City, astir against the mounting prima and the towering personality, astir I was lasting present it was similar a debased space shot, and this antheral is lasting determination and I realise that helium has gone done a lot. He is seen a lot. Otherwise wherefore would helium privation to enactment with a idiosyncratic similar me?”