Elections over in Telugu states but poll humour, entertainment apps keep spirit alive

HYDERABAD: Elections are over in the Telugu states but thanks to entertainment video apps, poll humour is still lingering.
Imitating political leaders, their voice and mannerisms and their style have kept people hooked on to the apps for, if not their daily dose, their hourly dose of entertainment. For those not too serious about politics and elections, politicians kept them busy and hooked to the spirit of the season.
Polls for the Andhra Pradesh assembly and Lok Sabha and for Telangana Lok Sabha seats were conducted on April 11 in the first phase of elections in the country.While the wait appears long for those who have been in fray and their supporters as results will be only out on May 23, the humour generated ruing the heat of the political battle is providing people with the ‘laughs’ that they badly need and not be sucked into the vicious campaign by politicos.
From the short videos that have been generated so far, K A Paul seems to be far ahead of those of his ilk in politics. The Praja Shanti Party leader's song “Nenu me voorlanni vasthanu – next week Ongole, Rayalaseema, Guntur, Vasthanu” that he sang on television interviews appeared to be the most popular with the fun-loving crowd on the apps and they imitated his action and mannerism with the app providing the song in the background. Not that just, K A Paul’s words while expressing ignorance about who Balakrishna, Pawan Kalyan and his brother Nagendra Babu were was also an imitators delight.
Telangana chief minister and TRS leader K Chandrasekhar Rao also was a big favourite. There was much ‘material’ in the form of his recorded speeches available for people to imitate him. Those who keenly watched his mannerisms were able to portray him exactly the way he would conduct himself at public meetings but most of the punch was really in KCR’s own voice. The mannerisms, emotions and imitations ranged from nodding the head like KCR, pointing out to someone and asking them to sit and simply brushing his hand against his nose. Quite a few girls too have taken a liking to imitating KCR.
The one who provided a lot of emotion was Jana Sena Party leader Pawan Kalyan giving those imitating him the ‘energy’ to act it out like him to the audio clips provided on Dubsmash.
YSRCP leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was another politician who appeared popular with the crowd on the apps. With audio clips of his speeches for which they had to act out, app users went berserk imitating him in the way he uses his hands, smiles and then also reaches out to people to affectionately hold them on their cheeks.
To imitate Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu did not appear to be a big task for people, so it was more like trying to look like him. One enterprising person put some shaving cream on his chin to make it look like the beard that Chandrababu Naidu sports. Elections may have ended but the entertainment has not stopped for the people of Telugu states.