Bollywood’s Chief Ministers - Throwback Thursday

Deepak Shirke (Sarkar)

Sometimes, the remote control is more important than the Chief Minister. Amitabh Bachchan played Sarkar, a cross between The Godfather and Bal Thackeray, who did not let pesky Chief Ministers get in the way of his agenda. He was the power behind the throne, the mystique behind the man, the Sarkar behind the sarkar. 

Amitabh Bachchan (Inquilaab)

Before he became the remote control, Amitabh Bachchan was the Chief Minister. He went from ‘cinema blacker’ to police officer to politician to CM in style, winning elections and killing smugglers. Unknown to him, he was being stage managed by evil forces who wanted to use his ‘clean image’ to ride to power. When Big B found out... well, he was not called Angry Young Man for nothing.

Raj Babbar (Aankhen)

What’s more entertaining than a Chief Minister? A Chief Minister and his evil twin!

In David Dhawan, Raj Babbar – the honest CM – was switched with a body double by the villains who had a finger in every naughty pie you can think of! The honest CM’s polite demeanour and the evil double’s manic eccentricities were great fun till the scam was unearthed by Govinda, Chunky Pandey and a monkey!

Manic body double planning (?) the switch:

Discovery of the body double before the switch:

Rakhee (Baadshah)

In a bid for women’s equality, we have a lady Chief Minister.

Though admittedly, Rakhee was not the prime attraction of Baadshah, she made a timely entry as a CM who was a target for SRK to kill. Oh wait, he was an assassin? No yaar, he was just a bumbling detective who was forced to do this. So, he killed the CM? Well, you don’t watch too many Hindi films, do you? 

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Katrina Kaif (Raajneeti)

One lady CM deserves one more!

When Katrina Kaif throws her firang accent to the winds, dons cotton sarees and hits the campaign trail with a vengeance, it can mean only one thing – LANDSLIDE! As Indu Pratap, Katrina led her Jan Shakti Party to a thumping victory partially because of a How-can-I-not-vote-for-Kat Wave, partially because of Her-Husband-Got-Killed-Sympathy Wave but mostly for her super-cool Wave to the crowds.
 

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Anil Kapoor (Nayak)

A TV reporter – who accepted the dare of a Chief Minister he was interviewing – became a politician we don’t even dream of, even on a drug-induced high! But it happened... Anil Kapoor became CM for just one day during which he raided shady ration shops, beat up goons, suspended bureaucrats with a portable writer, solved law and order problems on phone and even murmured sweet nothings to his lady love. Whoa!

[He returned for a full term later in the film. Now, where have I heard this before?] 

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