Couple of weeks ago, Tollywood was ablaze with intense heat during the election campaign of Movie Artistes’ Association (MAA) Presidency elections. Several popular stars took part in the election campaign and created havoc with their allegations on opposition, threats, abusive and filthy language and even crying, the kind of drama which we normally find among the real politicians.
However, all the hatred and animosity disappeared among these warring actors soon after the elections are over and they all claimed that there is no issue among them and that they are all close relatives in the Tollywood family. This melodrama made everyone wonder if these stars are actually using the MAA elections as a gateway to fulltime active politics.
Already, Murali Mohan, the working President of MAA is an MP from Rajahmundry and Jayasudha and her panel member Naresh too have immense political experience. While Rajendra Prasad is a novice to politics, his future political aspirations cannot be ruled out. And lastly, Hema contested in the 2014 general elections on behalf of Jai Samaikyandhra Party and suffered a shameful defeat.
Now that film stars are nowhere far from active politics and that most of them nurture political ambitions rather secretly, their dramatic show during the election campaign is nothing short of political spectacle and in some meetings they even surpassed the real politicians. There is no doubt that these stars have managed to make several political party heads take notice of their political mastery. We will have to wait and see how many of these artistes will jump into the political band wagon in the 2019 general elections.