In an exclusive interview with senior most journalist Bharathi S Pradhan for Lehren Retro, Akashdeep Sabir shares his unfiltered views on Bharatiya Janata Party, Politics & TV News Debates. The actor-director calls himself a die-hard fan of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah & also praises the senior leadership of BJP in turn sharing some unheard political stories. Watch this Lehren Video featuring the dynamic husband-wife duo Akashdeep & Sheeba! #akashdeepsabir #sheeba #narendramodi #amitshah #bjp
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00:00Aakash, you are very famous, you are coming to every TV debate.
00:11News debate.
00:12News debate.
00:13Yes, news debate.
00:14So, do you have strong political views?
00:18I mean, I stay clued to whatever is happening.
00:22Micro, short news and big news.
00:25I watch live TV and Arnab is at some point my favourite.
00:33But now there are many other channels.
00:36Other channels have also now settled down into doing well.
00:40Arnab, but...
00:41Yes, yes, yes.
00:42I am the professional of Shah Rukh Khan.
00:45Shah Rukh Khan will kill you.
00:47So, I am... No, I mean the one, two, three.
00:51Yes, yes, of course.
00:52So, I am a die-hard Modi fan.
01:05Amit Shah fan.
01:06Okay.
01:07For me Amit Shah is reminiscent of Sardarwala Bhai Patel.
01:11I am a man of India.
01:13No-nonsense man.
01:15And I like Yogi Adityanath.
01:18I like Devendra Fadnavis.
01:21So now, unfortunately, not unfortunately.
01:23Fortunately, they are all RSS BJP.
01:25So, I will not ask you if you are giving the vote.
01:27Let's go.
01:28I went.
01:29I went.
01:30Three years ago, 25 December, which happens to be my birthday.
01:34Vajpayee Ji is also my birthday.
01:36Jesus Christ.
01:37In 2017, I was doing the show for Reliance Foundation Day 5 years ago when the GEO launched.
01:44When the Suns were introduced.
01:45I was doing certain acts in that show.
01:48Sonu Nigam and all that.
01:50So, 25 years ago to leave for Delhi in the morning for another event was becoming very difficult.
01:55Because it was my final, but I had to go.
01:57So, I had to go to BJP office.
01:59A phone came to me.
02:00We need a bhajan singing in the morning at Vajpayee.
02:03That place that they have created.
02:05So, that day Anoop Ji wasn't the big boss.
02:08Otherwise, Anoop Ji is the buddy of ours.
02:11But, my brother who is no more.
02:14And I miss him.
02:15And I love him.
02:16And I am so happy that he got Padma Bhushan.
02:18What a fine gentleman.
02:21My brother.
02:22He has probably one or two friends in life.
02:24I am one of them.
02:25I have.
02:26So, I said, Panker Ji, you are...
02:28I am so happy that he did his homework.
02:31He was the whole cabinet.
02:33Opposition.
02:34Advani Ji, Sonia Ji, Malik Arjun.
02:37And of course, the entire BJP Brigade.
02:40And we did that show.
02:41So, that show started before.
02:43Early morning, 7 am.
02:45At 6 am, security came and Amit Shah walked in.
02:48To just take a final.
02:50To just take a final.
02:51To just take a final.
02:52Everybody was a VIP.
02:53Cabinet.
02:54Opposition.
02:55Opposition.
02:56Retired people like Advani Ji.
02:58Supreme Court judges.
02:59Everybody was the chief of staff.
03:00No.
03:01So, he was sitting.
03:02So, I walked up to him.
03:03Hello, sir.
03:04You know.
03:05So, I said, Amit Shah Ji, you have to take a photo with me.
03:07I said, Amit Shah Ji, you have to take a photo with me.
03:10What is the photo with me?
03:11I said, you are a big fan of me.
03:12I said, you are a big fan of me.
03:14I said, you have to take a photo with me.
03:16I said, you have to take a photo with me.
03:21So, I said, sir.
03:22I said, you have to talk a lot.
03:27Not because I am nervous.
03:28But.
03:29No, yeah.
03:30I think I owe him that.
03:33You have seen it in the debates, right?
03:36The debate.
03:37Oh, oh.
03:38You have to give aoss of BJP.
03:40You have to take a photo and say,
03:42Some work have come.
03:44He was so sweet.
03:45We took pictures.
03:46And..
03:48So,
03:50I..
03:51I get very upset when I see the news and you can't believe that I attended 80 debates on Sushant Singh Rajpur.
03:5880.
03:59You and I were on a flue together.
04:01Yeah, we were together, remember?
04:02I mean, Arnav's 15-20, NDTV's 10, India Today's 10.
04:06Those days, Covid-19, this was…
04:09Absolutely.
04:10So…
04:11I like Arnav's debates, they're great fun.
04:13And I can't do anything negative.
04:15I can't watch a negative video, I can't watch a negative debate.
04:18I can't have negative chatter.
04:20If you're diplomatic, please don't come to any debate.
04:22No, I can't.
04:23I don't like it.
04:24But at one point, we felt that Arnav Gost is taking it too far.
04:28Let's hope Saif's issue does not become…
04:30See, Sushant, God bless the man, he died.
04:32He died.
04:33And a brilliant young, upcoming superstar died.
04:36I can understand the reason for that becoming so viral.
04:39But Saif, after 4 days, he came home.
04:41People told him about 3 inches of knife.
04:44Just filmy publicity.
04:463 inches of knife.
04:47And then Saif came.
04:49So, I'm saying, I thought, let's leave her home.
04:54But then when I see, Arnav proved fingerprints don't match.
05:02They don't match.
05:07So, some things that he said, they do make you sit up and think.
05:13Question mark.
05:14He doesn't have any jadu in his hand.
05:15He doesn't have to be hypnotized into believing.
05:17It's a fact.
05:18So, the other day when NDTV…
05:20Question mark.
05:21NDTV told me, we're calling you for a debate.
05:23This is 3 days back.
05:24And we are in solidarity with the actor.
05:26That you must give him a space.
05:27And they probably have been following my stand.
05:29That I've always been saying, leave the couple.
05:31Leave them.
05:32Right.
05:33That's the price you pay for fame.
05:34If you are a celebrity then you can't be selective.
05:35That's the price you pay for fame.
05:36If you are a celebrity then you can't be selective.
05:40If you have a film promotion have a book, write it for me and write it about me.
05:49But if you have something negative against me, write that you don't have to write it.
05:51That's the price you pay for fame.
05:54If you are a celebrity then you can't be selective.
05:58To write in my film, for a moment, don't write it.
06:03Then you are 100%, you are answerable to the public, then you better lump it.
06:09Even though you have said that you had your little romances, there was a lot of gossip about you.
06:17No, there was gossip about me, because you have always been diplomatic.
06:22Because all your contemporaries, like Nagma and all, it was all about you.
06:25Like Karanvir said, he bought the whole PR media. Elvis Adab also said that.
06:30I have always been extremely discreet. I do not believe in name dropping and I do not believe in slandering people
06:38and I feel that what happened, leave it.
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