Hema doesn't feel good about politics

PATNA: For dream girl Hema Malini, the Phulwari experience was not at all "feel good". In a talk with media persons while on a visit to the city to campaign for the BJP candidate, she said, "I was bitten by mosquitoes which troubled me all the time". Enacting the bug(ging) experience, she said flies got into her hair and danced on her face every time she opened her mouth to speak."Politics is all dust and grime," she added.
"Campaigning is a tough job. The crowds are dangerous and make me really scared. Contrary to films for which they have to pay, the crowds come in large numbers as they get to see me for free. She said films are so different. "They give you a creative experience while politics is nothing but bhaashan," she remarked.
"I am a creative person. I can''t go to the slum and interact with people there as I am not capable of it. I can dance, I can act and I can do other such things which are my forte," she said.
She had other surprises in store. Asked about Sonia Gandhi, she was all praise for the lady. "She is so hard working and is doing so much for the party. I really admire her for that," she said. She also finds RJD supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav "interesting". "I am very keen to meet him. Once we saw each other in Rajya Sabha but he looked at me and then went the other away. No one introduced us to each other," she recalled.
She said she didn''t mind when Laloo made the comment that he will make the Patna roads as smooth as her cheeks. "I took it in a humorous way," she said. She also said that no political party can exploit a film star if the person is smart enough. "If someone uses my popularity with people, I will also use them," she said.
She, however, doesn''t feel happy about film stars joining the political bandwagon in large numbers. "Most of them do it for free publicity. Ask some of the newcomers, they won''t even know about the party they are campaigning for," she said.
Hema may have joined politics, but her heart still throbs for cinema and dance which continue to be the ruling assions of her life. "I want to do dance shows but no one invites me for that. They only call me for campaigning," she said.