May 6, 2024, 01:56 PM IST
Indian stars who quit acting to enter politics
Abhimanyu Mathur
Thalapathy Vijay has announced that he will be quitting films after his next to focus on his political career
MG Ramachandran, the legendary screen icon, left films in the early 80s for politics and served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for 10 years
Once a top heroine, Jayalalithaa followed MGR into politics, quitting films in 1980, and become CM of Tamil Nadu herself
Bollywood star Sunil Dutt took a long break from films in the early 90s, later becoming a Union Minister in Manmohan Singh’s cabinet
A top actress in the 80s, Jayaprada left films in 1996 after she became a Rajya Sabha MP, eventually winning a Lok Sabha election too in 2004
In 2007, Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi halted his film career, launching his own party and contesting Assembly Elections
The highest-paid TV actress of her time, Smriti Irani left showbiz in 2009, becoming an MP and Cabinet Minister
Vijayakanth was a top star in Tamil cinema until he stopped accepting films in 2011 as he became an MLA
Divya Spandana aka Ramya worked in Kannada cinema before leaving films in 2012 to join the Congress and contested Lok Sabha elections twice
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