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on 2007/2/23 8:24:27
Actor-turned-politician Vinod Khanna is enjoying his return to Bollywood.
A popular action hero of the 1970 and '80s, Khanna, 60, turned to politics seven years ago and is currently a lawmaker representing the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
He is now moonlighting as a movie star, having initiated his comeback with the role of a mafia boss in ``Risk,'' a crime thriller which hit screens last month.
``I've done three tenures as a member of Parliament and I've done enough work for my constituency,'' he told Cine Blitz film magazine in its February issue. ``Now, I guess my constituency can spare me.''
Khanna has completed the shooting of another action movie, ``Godfather,'' scheduled to be released later this year. He has signed for four new movies.
``What excites me now is the challenge of the films that are made these days and I want to be part of all that,'' he told the magazine. ``Also a lot of roles have been written for people of my age. So I can take on the job and do justice to it.''
Khanna has acted in some 120 movies. His sons, Akshaye and Rahul, also are well-known actors in India's prolific Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay.
source:hindu
