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The veteran director and actor has more than 40 films under his name.

Cinema has long provided the glamour quotient to Indian politics; what politicians could bring to the silver screen remains moot.

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Tharoor's controversy only served to highlight the wider malaise that now affects India: unfamiliarity with English idioms.