Upendra responds on Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan’s political parties

Kannada Actor Upendra is known to Telugu audience as well with his performance in movies like Kanyadanam, S/o Satyamurthy etc. In fact a couple of decades back, his Kannada dubbed movies like “A” and “Upendra” ran for 100 days in Telugu. He recently launched new political Party Karnataka Pragnavantha Janatha Paksha. Upendra claimed that his party would reflect the aspirations of the workers and downtrodden. Also told, he will focus on basic things like education, health and insurance for all. So far Upendra has some positive buzz in Karnataka. But of course, positive buzz, media attention etc are not sufficient to make a mark in politics.

In his first interaction with the press, he was asked a question by a reporter that – “though film actors like MGR are successful, there are failure stories like Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan, Did you think of them before launching the party?”. This was the question reporter put. Obviously reporter did not do his full home work. Though Chiranjeevi and Vijaykanth contested in polls and failed, Pawan Kalyan so far did not contested and he only campaigned in 2014 polls and the parties for which he campaigned got victory in 2014 elections. However, Upendra replied to this question in an interesting way. Without talking on either successes or failures of others, he told – “I dont want to become MGR, Chiranjeevi or Pawan. I just want to be myself, Upendra”. There was thunderous response from the crowd for his answer.