UP needs a youth leader like Akhilesh Yadav, says Jaya Bachchan

Urging Abhishek to help Akhilesh achieve his dream by shooting films in UP, Jaya said: “Akhilesh ke wade ko pura karo (Fulfil Aklhilesh’s promises).”

“UP ki unnatti ho aur unnatti ke leader aap ho (Let UP develop and you be the leader of development),” she told Akhilesh, adding that the CM has shown mental strength in what he has done and what he had said. “Amitabh Bachchan, if called, will come to teach at the film institute,” said Jaya.
Also present at the function were former FTII director Virendra Saini, film director Anurag Kashyap and actors Ravi Kishan and Kunal Kapoor.

Akhilesh, who gave subsidy to 21 films in regional languages and Hindi, including Masaan and Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho among others, said: “Let people say I am a dreamer… I have fulfilled dreams by making projects like Metro, Dial 100 and laptop distribution in a record time.”

As Saini, Kashyap and Ravi Kishan cited how they had a hard time convincing their families about their decision to enter the film industry, Akhilesh said: “Mr Saini was saying he had to do what he did not like at home, then only he could reach here. Ravi Kishan also said the same… May be many more would. Let me leave this topic here.”