Nostalgia: Savitri’s Opinion On Star-Politicians

That was in 1956 when a film magazine ‘KINIMA’ conducted an interview with Savitri, the glowing star of those days. A question was asked to tell her opinion on how it looks if film stars become politicians and politicians become film stars. Yes, that was many years before MGR and NTR entered politics. So, the person who asked that question assumed something that was going to happen much before some 30 years.

Answering to that question Savitri said, “Entire nation would go up side down. On should do one’s own duty. Politicians shouldn’t become actors and actors shouldn’t become politicians”.

But we have seen what happened after 30 years from then, MGR and NTR have become legends in both filmdom and politics.