These days, many film actors become politicians. At the least, they provide support to a political party. In Tamil Nadu, assembly elections are due in May 2006. Here is the list of actors compaigning for assembly election:

AIADMK (lady first): Sarat kumar, Radhika (Mrs. Sarat Kumar), Senthil, Vijayakumar, Murali, Simran, Vindya, Radha Ravi, S.S.Chandran, S.V.Sekar, etc ...

DMK: Nepolean, T.Rajender, Bagyaraj, Thyagu, Chandra Sekar, Kumari Muthu, etc ...

DMDK (Hope i spelt it correctly): Vijayakant (his own party)

Why this incident is very common ?

They act in films. Once they loose interest or out of field, they look around for a way to earn. They don't have knowledge/ability to earn in any other field. They have popularity and choose political field. They join a party, work for some months/years and move on to different party for reasons known only to them. Do they really increase the vote bank for the concerned party ? IMO, no. They gather crowd, but they are not converted as votes. When will the party leaders understand and close the doors for these actors ?