Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan in style movie stars, however ‘marginal players’ in politics: Aiyar

Describing Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan as “marginal political players”, senior Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyar has stated they continue to be highly regarded movie stars however are unable to draw public opinion to their viewpoint in political phrases.
Aiyar, who has been named in three key panels arrange by the Congress for Tamil Nadu polls, asserted that celebrity Rajinikanth’s resolution that he is not going to enter electoral politics is not going to make a tinker’s distinction because the state readies for the meeting polls.

“When he (Rajinikanth) said he was going to come into politics, I said it is not going to make a tinker’s difference, now that he has decided not to come into politics, I repeat what I said, it is not going to make a tinker’s difference,” Aiyar advised PTI in an interview.
“Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth are not anything but marginal political players,” the previous Union minister stated.
It was completely different within the previous days when individuals like M G Ramachandran (MGR), Sivaji Ganesan and even Jayalalithaa have been concerned in movies that carried a revolutionary social message, he stated.

Noting that former Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers M Karunanidhi and C N Annadurai have been additionally deeply concerned in cinema, he stated the highly effective scripts written by Annadurai and very highly effective dialogues by Karunanidhi that have been delivered magnificently by MGR resulted in movies in Tamil cinema having within the Nineteen Fifties the identical position as social media is immediately having in figuring out the politics of northern India.
“Since these two (Rajinikanth and Haasan) have never used cinema as a medium for a political message, they remain what they are — very very popular film stars, but not people who attract public opinion to their point of view in political terms,” Aiyar stated.
He argued that there have been no two actors extra in style on the Hindi silver display screen than Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna, however “what flops they were in politics”.
The identical factor applies within the South, he added.
Making a U-turn, celebrity Rajinikanth final month introduced he is not going to enter politics in view of his frail well being, placing an finish to his long-nurtured plans and describing his latest hospitalisation as God’s warning.

“Only I know the pain behind making this announcement,” the 70 year-old actor had stated, simply days earlier than he was to spell out the contours of his get together based mostly on religious politics aimed toward bringing a complete change within the Dravidian heartland Tamil Nadu within the 2021 meeting elections.

Haasan had launched Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) in February 2018 and the get together had confronted the 2019 Lok Sabha elections however couldn’t win a single seat.

Haasan, by means of his ongoing ballot marketing campaign, has latched on to the welfare legacy of MGR and has been attacking each the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) over alleged corruption.