Bollywood and politics have remained strange bedfellows over the years. While several of B-town folk have dabbled in politics, a number of politicians too have rubbed shoulders with industry big-wigs. But this marriage between two distinctly different domains has made as many headlines for their gaffes as their contribution to the society. With Hema Malini’s recent media bytes on the lack of security for women in the country raking up a furore, it once again casts aspersions on how truly aware our stars-turned-politicos are of the real picture out there...

Hema Malini
Party: BJP
Quote: “Don’t take it so easy and go anywhere you want...anything can happen…you can get caught. Krishna would always come to protect Draupadi but we aren't so spiritually-evolved that God will come and protect us.”
Unquote: Though the statement had a cautious maternal tone, it made netizens wonder whether the mother of two girls’ was questioning urban realities. The rebuttal posed to the evergreen actress was quite a pragmatic one: if a woman can’t travel without fear and that too in a metropolitan, what’s the point of this thing called modern progress?