Actors Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn fielded questions associated to politics on Saturday night for the third and remaining day of the annual Hindustan Instances Management Summit.
Their session was moderated by Sonal Kalra, HT’s Chief Managing Editor, Leisure & Life-style. On the finish of the session, Kalra invited politicians Ravneet Singh Bittu and Shazia Ilmi on the stage to check their information on movies, whereas Kumar and Devgn took questions on politics.
“Title 5 actors who’re at the moment politicians,” Kalra requested, prompting a dialogue between the 2 stars.
Kumar named Union minister Chirag Paswan, BJP MPs Ravi Kishan and Hema Malini, and former MPs Jaya Prada and Sunny Deol, each from the BJP.
Subsequent, with the Maharashtra meeting elections approaching (November 20), they have been requested what number of meeting seats does the state have.
“288,” Akshay responded promptly and appropriately, because the viewers gave him a thunderous applause.
“288, phir se solar lo (I repeat myself),” the “Khiladi Kumar” laughed.
On when the outcomes might be declared, Ajay appropriately talked about: “23 (November)”.
Because the actors are primarily based in Mumbai, India’s monetary capital and residential to Bollywood (because the Hindi movie trade is popularly identified), the host puzzled if she ought to quiz them on one other state.
“Jharkhand,” Ilmi prompted her.
“Ask on Jharkhand when the time (for polls) comes,” Akshay quipped.
Nonetheless, Jharkhand, too, is in the course of meeting polls. Its outcomes might be identified on the identical date as Maharashtra.
Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar have been additionally requested to call a former actor who’s a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities. Kumar’s reply: Chirag Paswan, who appeared in just one movie, 2011’s ‘Miley Naa Miley Hum’. His co-star within the movie was Kangana Ranaut, now a BJP MP.
Subsequent, they have been requested about an actor who’s the present deputy chief minister of a state. “Pawan Kalyan (of Andhra Pradesh),” Akshay said appropriately.
On one actor who would make a fantastic politician (and vice-versa), Akshay talked about Riteish Deshmukh, the son of late Congress chief and ex-Maharashtra CM, Vilasrao Deshmukh. Riteish Deshmukh actively campaigns for the Congress, as his brothers Amit and Dhiraj are members of the social gathering.
Akshay and Riteish have been co-actors in a number of movies.
In the meantime, ex-Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was Kumar’s alternative for the second a part of the query, the reply evoking laughter from the viewers.
