Here comes some competition for Amitabh Bachchan

Here comes some competition for Amitabh Bachchan
Friday, November 03, 2006 12:46 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
Actor-politician Vinod Khanna, who is making a comeback in Bollywood with three movie, says he does not regret his decision to embark on a spiritual journey with Osho and quitting the industry at the peak of his career more than two decades ago.

''I have always enjoyed acting. But I am a weird person and make my own choices. At that point of time, I felt my spiritual journey was more important so I returned signing amount of 30 films and quit the industry.

After I started working again, I realized that I wanted to do something for the country and joined politics,'' the 60-year-old debonair actor, who was considered a strong contender to challenge Amitabh Bachchan the one man industry of the 1970s, said while interacting with mediapersons on the sets of his movie 'Risk' which releases on December 15.

Khanna says that being a minister in the BJP government for three and-a-half-years prevented him from taking up film assignments.

''Now that I am three-time MP, I am settled in my constituency and several primary issues that needed urgent attention have been resolved and settled like connectivity to airports, railway tracks and other basic infrastructure,'' he added.

The former Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism said he had no political ambitions and was content looking after his constituency Gurdaspur in Punjab.

Khanna has just completed Vishram Sawant's 'Risk' for K Sera Sera productions and another film by a Dubai-based producer. He will soon begin work for Subhash Ghai's untitled venture starring Salman Khan, Hema Malini among others.

The actor agreed that he missed out on his film career earlier.

''But, I was fortunate to have a great spiritual guru. I know what I have achieved in that journey. I do not regret quitting the industry at that point of time. It is the people who feel that I was missed,'' he said.

The veteran actor who is best remembered for his performances in 'Mere Apne', 'Inkaar', 'Achanak', 'Khoon Pasina', 'Amar Akbar Anthony', 'Mera Gaon Mera Desh' to name a few said he was now looking for good meaty roles and wanted to make a comeback in movies. In the last few years, he was seen in 'Deewanapan' and 'Leila'.
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