Open AccessMegastar Chiranjeevi is back with Khaidi No 150; has he ended his political career for good?
Author(s) -
Srinivas SV
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
zenodo (cern european organization for nuclear research)
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.5281/zenodo.268661
Subject(s) - politics , sociology , psychology , political science , law
Treating films as a form of propaganda may or may not help Chiranjeevi's political career, which to be honest, can't be in a worse shape than it is now. However, his film career can be seriously damaged by drawing parallels between filmic narratives and the acts of commission and omission of the star-politician. There is a real danger of the fiction falling apart: from the weight of political considerations that the actor brings to bear on it on the one hand and the insistence of viewers that he authenticate the fantasy with real world actions on the other