Being a politician in real life is tougher: Mahie Gill

Mumbai: Actress Mahie Gill who has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party recently and also played a politician on-screen in the recently released web series ‘Raktanchal 2’ says encountering the real situation as a politician is very different from acting then in films and series.

Asked about her new career choice as a politician and Mahie : “Firstly it is just a coincidence that in ‘Raktanchal 2’ I played a politician and in reality also I joined politics. The timing was not quite planned. But I must say that when an actress becomes a politician, people’s attitude changes and not always fame helps to influence people to change their minds.

“Same people who love me for my acting, not necessarily love and support me as a politician. Initially, people are interested to come and meet me for selfies and the fact that they are meeting an actress. So I would say that playing a politician on-screen and meeting real people and real issues as a politician is very different and rather tougher.”

In the show she plays the character named Saraswati Devi and the story is set in the ’90s era.

Drawing the similarity from the story of the show and the present time in Indian politics, Mahie said, ” when it comes to the show, I was excited to play Saraswati Devi because of the very fact that the story was set in the 90s era and I never played a politician in my career before. Back in the day, female representation in Indian politics in higher positions was quite a power struggle.”