Happy Birthday Megastar Morning Wishesh

Happy Birthday Megastar

Good Morning friends Morning Wishesh brings you today's morning news roundup. And we wish all our readers celebrating their birthdays today. It's a sunny Wednesday morning at Hyderabad, of-course with intensified power outages. The state is reeling under power crisis. For expressing your concern to the ongoing crisis we require your responses. Comments or feedback relating to power outages could be given in the comments box below. Your feedback could be explaining the reasons of the present day crisis, or valuable suggestions to get over the problem or anything else. We would try our best to bring the feedback to the notice of the concerned for a better future. So put your fingers on your keyboards and rush in your suggestions.

Celebrity Corner: The state is immersed in celebrating the Megastar's birthday today, if not all atleast most. Wishesh takes this opportunity to wish the Megastar Chiranjeevi, a very Happy Birthday. We also wish him a grand success in the new year that starts from today for him. Sir may your good desires be fulfilled and may it benefit one and all of the state.

In a nutshell what makes Chiru (as he is fondly called by his million fans, globally) what he is today. Unlike many great celebrities, it was hard work, vision and discipline with an aptitude to learn from mistakes has made this actor turned politician a successful personality globally.

Days Specialty: In 1932 world renowned TV news channel BBC first experiments with Television Broad.

History Speaks:: In 1639 Madras, now Chennai was founded by British East India Company on a piece of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

Festival time: With Id festival (EID) just celebrated the country is gearing up to celebrate the Onam and Ganesh Chathurthi, shortly. Onam is celebrated on the 29th  August while Ganesh Chathurthi on September 19. the country is filled with the festival calender and that simply means loads of holidays for all of us. Enjoy!

From the epics: Bhagavad-Gita: Yesterday we had discussed about Chapter Four, Jnana Yoga that deals with, 'Approaching the Ultimate Truth.' And do you know what ascetic Ramanuja said, 'Bhagavad-Gita reveals the goal of the all the Vedic scriptures.'

Today Chapter Five known as 'Karma Vairagya Yoga'. This chapter deals with, 'Action and Renunciation.' The Lord Krishna tells his disciple Arjuna, amidst Kurukshetra (war) that actions must be rendered on judicial judgments, were relationships and prejudice must not surface. He also enlightens that those who perform actions after leaving both these issues are blessed with success and inturn reach salvation.

Getting back to our concrete jungles for our regular news round up:

Megastar to political Chanukya...saga continues

'Star....Star....Mega...star..Star....'

This is the famous starting lyric of an old Megastar film. If it is rewritten today then it will be, 'Star....Star....Mega...star..Star.... Political.. Star.. Star...' True after a considerable debacle in the 2009 general elections many thought that it was the end of the political roads to the actor turned politician Chiranjeevi. Inspite of huge fan base he failed to garner Assembly strengths to crown self as the Chief Minister. This was considered as a major setback for his political aspirations and then rose the mature politician in Chiru (as he is fondly recalled by fans). Yes if you remember the media interview he gave to a prominent channel after merging his Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) with the Congress.

The senior journalist questioned his motive behind the merger. And pop, came the reply, 'to work better,' by the star. Then he added, 'if I could fight for many causes for the betterment of my people, while staying out of the ruling party' he pause and continued, 'my chances are better when I stay with the ruling party.' Initially, people thought he was an opportunist while merging the party. They went on to say that Chiru was benefited in the merger with power. But the political Chanukya proved his critics wrong and stated that not only he, but even Congress was benefited in the deal.

How do you think Congress was benefited: The Byelections for the 13 constituencies in the recent past, saw the results, inspite of a sympathy wave sweeping the Congress contestants off their seats. The sole two seats that the Congress garnered where those of Chiru's trusted lieutenants in Narsapur and Ramachandrapuram. Despite the sympathy wave, Chiru's wave was riding higher. Critics restricted their comments and some even went to say that in 2014 general elections, Congress might have a grand say if Chiru's role is well defined. Well this is not a political column and we shall not speculate much on these lines.

On the contrary what makes Chiru what he is today. From Siva Sankara Vara Prasad the journey to Rajya Sabha was surely not just a bed of roses, they had their thorns too. Out from the Madras Film Institute in the late 70's, his first film 'Punadhirallu' did not give him the necessary impetus for a robust career, as it took to screen after a long hiatus. But later started, 'Pranam Kareedhu' was the first released film and his role in the next film 'Manavuri Pandavulu,' directed by Bapu gave him a launch pad for a bright career. However the commercial hero status to the star was given by A Kodandarami Reddy's 'Khaidhi' in 1983. from then on wards there was no looking back for the star.

And the success journey continued for almost two decades and more. Chiru was moved by the flood victims plight in the late nineties. Though he donated for the cause liberally, his outreach attitude was never quenched and he formed the Chiranjeevi Charitable Trust (CCT) in 1998, to reach out the needy. As he realized that if one man contributes it is limited but creating an awakening amidst a larger base, the contributions are abundant. With this in minds he felt CCT would create the awareness. And for the larger base, he had the easy access to millions through his versatile acting skills. To maximize his service reach, CCT listed  Chiranjeevi Blood and Eye Banks. As per stats CCT is the  largest recipient of blood and eye donations, in the state. Infact CCT has reached out to numerous people in need,over 68,000 blood donations through and 1,414 eye donations, lists Wiki.

The reach out was so phenomenal that each of his audio cassette had a self declaration form for his fans to donate their eyes to the needy, as per norms. On most of his birthdays there were large blood camps organized by his fans and the donations reached the bank to help the needy too. All this needed meticulous planning and profound patronage, who else than Chiru, could accomplish this mammoth task. Yet the reaching out instincts to the needy, in him, were still not quenched, the thirst continued. In 2009 he started his political party PRP, with a slogan for social empowerment through social justice. However he was able to erode the base of Telugu Desam Party and Congress alike, he lost many seats in low majorities. Finally PRP could just win 18 MLA seats with 18% vote share.

With this point many thought that the political novice (as claimed by his critics) would turn his back to his aspirations. But Chiru was in no mood for bowing out, to the defeats, but was in hibernation for sometime. Later after the death of the former Chief Minister Y S Rajashekar Reddy in 2009 in a fatal air accident, Congress had a leadership crisis. And in 2011 Congress was pinned down by the  YSR Congress party headed by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, in the form of a non-confidence motion, in the assembly. And Congress had to call on Chiru for a support in the form of a merger. PRP was formally merged with the Congress on 6 February 2011 (after thirty months of existence). This was also blamed by the critics as a suicidal step by the PRP. But Chiru who had now become the 'Political Chanukya' knew that his move would give him the 'king pin's' status. And the byelections consolidated his prowess and powers.

Sitting in the Rajya Sabha as a Congress Leader, Chiru has never involved himself in mudslinging or taking shots of the ruling leaders. He was concentrating in making a path for getting his objectives of 'serving the people' fulfilled. Chiru is a well-balanced politician, this was visible when most politicians were pondering over the (by)-electoral gains, he carried on with his son's wedding, confident about his stakes. Such was the vision of the leader who delivered what promised and maintained all his duties as a human, actor and a politician. Wishesh wishes the Megastar of Politics a Happy Birthday and also wishes him success in his mission. (With inputs from internet-AW AarKay)