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?
03:12So, I said, I am a big fan of you.
03:14I said, I am a big fan of you.
03:16I thought, I wanted to take a photo with me.
03:21So, I said, sir.
03:24I said, I didn't talk so much.
03:26Not because I am nervous, but.
03:28No.
03:29Yeah.
03:30I think I owe him that.
03:32Have you seen it in debates?
03:34No.
03:35You come in debates, right?
03:36Oh, oh.
03:37And that's why.
03:38You give me the award of BJP.
03:40Oh, oh.
03:41Maybe the job came.
03:43Then he was so sweet.
03:45We took pictures.
03:46And so, I like big boss.
03:51I get very upset when I see the news.
03:53And I don't believe that I attended 80 debates on Sushant Singh Rajput.
03:5780.
03:58You and I were on a flute together.
04:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:01We 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.
04:12They're great fun.
04:13And I can't do anything negative.
04:15I can't watch a negative video.
04:16I can't watch a negative debate.
04:18I can't have negative chatter.
04:19If you're diplomatic, please, you can't come to any debate.
04:22You can't come.
04:23I don't like it.
04:24I don't like it.
04:25But at one point, we felt that Arnav Ghust is taking it too far.
04:28Let's hope Saif's issue does not become.
04:30See, Sushant, God bless the man.
04:32He died.
04:33He died.
04:34And a brilliant young, upcoming superstar died.
04:36I can understand the reason for that becoming so viral.
04:39But Saif, 4 days later, he came home.
04:41People told him a half-inch knife for 3 inches.
04:44He was just filming publicity.
04:46He came in the 3-inch knife.
04:47And then Saif came.
04:48He came.
04:49He came.
04:50He came.
04:51So, I'm saying, I thought,
04:53He came home.
04:54Leave him.
04:55But then when I see, Arnav proved fingerprints don't match.
05:02He's got a bag of bangladeshi.
05:04He's got a bag of bangladeshi.
05:05They don't match.
05:06So, some of the things that he said, they do make you sit up and think.
05:12Question mark.
05:13It's not that we are hypnotizing into believing.
05:17It's a fact.
05:18So, the other day when NDTV,
05:20NDTV told me we are 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.
05:30That I've always been saying,
05:31Leave the couple.
05:32Leave them.
05:33I said, I'm going to say,
05:35I'm going to say,
05:36I'm going to say,
05:37My mom is looking at me.
05:38I said,
05:39I said,
05:40Why did you say the driver not?
05:41In 3 days,
05:42How did you go?
05:43How did you go?
05:44Fingerprint, Mac?
05:45I thought we were in solidarity.
05:48I said,
05:49I do agree that you should leave him alone.
05:53That's the price you pay for fame.
05:55If you are a celebrity,
05:56then you can't be selective.
05:58If you have a film promotion,
06:00write me about it.
06:01But if something is negative,
06:03don't write me about it.
06:04Then you are 100% answerable to the public.
06:07You better lump it.
06:08But even though you have said that you had your little romances,
06:14there were a lot of gossip about you.
06:17No,
06:18there were gossip about me.
06:19Because you have always been diplomatic.
06:21Because all your contemporaries,
06:22like Nagma and all,
06:23everything came about.
06:24Like Karanvir said,
06:26he bought the whole PR media.
06:28Elvis Yadav also said that.
06:30I have always been extremely discreet.
06:32I do not believe in name dropping.
06:34And I do not believe in slandering people.
06:38And I feel that the one who has been hit,
06:40leave him alone.
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