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The lead actors of the forgettable 2014 Bollywood romantic film Miley Naa Miley Hum are now key politicians in the ruling alliance over 10 years later. Kangana Ranaut, a three-time National Award-winning actor and filmmaker, is a Member of Parliament (MP) from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh under the Bhartiya Jana Party (BJP). Meanwhile, Chirag Paswan, the Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, saw his party Lok Janshakti Party win 19 of the 29 seats it contested in the recent Bihar assembly elections.
Directed by Tanveer Khan, Miley Naa Miley Hum revolved around Chirag’s character, also called Chirag, an aspiring tennis player who falls in love with Anishka (Kangana), a model, against his parents’ wishes. The movie also starred Kabir Bedi and Poonam Dhillon as his parents, along with Sagarika Ghatge, Neeru Bajwa, Dilip Tahil, and Suresh Menon.
Miley Naa Miley Hum was a major flop at the box office. It didn’t collect even Rs 1 crore at the worldwide box office, concluding its extremely short box office run at Rs 97 lakh globally and Rs 77 lakh domestically. While Kangana Ranaut went on to headline several movies after the movie, Chirag Paswan decided to quit the film industry, leave Mumbai, and return to his home turf, Bihar.
“No one from my family has ever been to Bollywood. In a filmy way I can say, ‘Meri saat pushto ka film se koi naata nai raha’. I was the first generation who was trying to venture into it. But, very soon I realised that this is a disaster. Even before the country, I realised I am a disaster. I just came to know that I wasn’t made for this (acting).”
He added, “I have seen my father giving speeches, standing on the stage and talking impromptu and here they are giving me dialogues that’s written and I just have to say so much. They used to give a two-line dialogue to deliver and I used to speak for two pages and the makers used to be like, ‘you didn’t have to say so much’ and I have grown up seeing my dad speaking impromptu so I just assumed you can improvise dialogues and just say it. I used to do that but very soon I realised I can’t mug up dialogues and put on such heavy makeup.”
He said the only good thing that came from the film was his friendship with Kangana. The two met again in the Parliament after winning in the last Lok Sabha elections. “Only good thing that happened to me after trying my luck in acting is that Kangana and I became really good friends. That’s one good thing we carried from that time. And I was really looking forward to meet Kangana in the Parliament because the past three years, I was so busy in my own life that I had lost my connection with her.”
“I was working in Mumbai and I was pretty settled there. Had I given a few more years to Bollywood, I would have made a decent name for myself. The only reason I came to politics was that I had witnessed from close quarters how Biharis were treated in other parts of the country, how they were humiliated. The name Bihari itself was made into a gaali (cussword),” Chirag had told The Indian Express during his recent campaign.
Son of late Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who died at the age of 74 in 2020, Chirag Paswan joined his father’s political party Lok Janshakti Party. He became the party president in 2020 after his father’s demise and held the position for less than a year. He became an MP in 2014 from the constituency of Jamui, and is currently an MP from Hajipur.
Now the president of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Chirag was appointed as the Union Minister of Food Processing Industries last year after the National Democratic Alliance, of which his party is a part along with the BJP, won the Lok Sabha Elections. After being doubted as a contender widely, including from the members of his own extended family, Chirag has finally proved his mettle in the recently held Bihar State Elections.
His party won 19 of the 29 seats it contested in the assembly elections. This win comes on the party’s success in the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections when it won all the five parliamentary seats it contested. He had earlier stated that if NDA performs well in the Bihar state elections, his party would stake claim to the deputy chief minister post. Ever since his 2020 campaign, Chirag has also projected himself as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hanuman.
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