I think NTR started this trend in AP of film stars coming to power. They are all jokers...all of them. Hopefully, chiru is different and will work for the poor.
NTR was the biggest joker of them all. Among other jokes, he said Naxals were "desh bhakts" and he also said he would be willing to mediate in the first gulf war. If he had gone to Iraq during that time, Saddam would have made a chaprasi out of him. NTR staged his own assasination attempt and the guy who supposedly made this attempt( a big NTR fan)was found dead later. So much for drama baazi.