When they were alive, I'm not sure if many actors were vocal about politics or many people actually started parties. They are two big leaders of all time - Kalaignar and Amma. Skeptics say filmmakers never spoke up when Jayalalithaa was alive, so is this a false sense of bravado? I have been a politician now and I will be one till I die.
I can't change India or Pakistan but I can help people around me. I want to be the friendly neighbourhood superhero who can save four people around him. My politics is doing things that are possible within your own sphere. What I have been doing for 4-5 years is politics. If this is politics, it is too little for me. And if he doesn't get it then, he will get one or two lakhs every day, wave and say vote for the person concerned. The trend now is - an actor who voices his opinion will support a party three months before the elections, then he'll get a seat. But once I grew up, and got into radio and saw what is happening around me, I started distancing myself from electoral politics. That is because I started reading political magazines from a very young age and had a high interest in politics. When I was in eighth standard, we were told to write down our ambition on a piece of paper and I said I want to become a politician. I actually have a 25-year-old political plan.
The actors who've been acting in these films with political overtones are considered to be harbouring political ambitions themselves. Also, we can find such content on social media, why would I need to make this film for two hours with so much effort? That is a good genre but that is not what I was looking for here. But if we included too many, it would have become a Tamizh Padam 3. We also had 350 real life incidents already written on paper. We are not looking to make a spoof, so we had a story which shows the journey of a man travelling from one point to another. We just showed the same shots in the film. You may have seen two or three parodies in the film's trailer.I don't even call them parodies, it is actually a recreation of what happened. Any real life inspirations behind the story? LKG seems to be about a TN politician who is interested to enter national level politics. So, it is not just another film trying to use what is happening right now. Through that journey, I wanted to convey the larger message of the film, which is to invest five more minutes before you vote. Apart from that, I thought it was to be a proper film with a story and also about the journey of a politician. When we started writing, we decided it will not be a spoof or a parody of what is happening today.
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