Atal was into poetry. Yash Chopra directed music videos based on his poems, Javed Akhtar and Gulzar also helped give it musical finish and launched his album. SRK acted in those videos.
Atal was right winger too but not a rabid hatemonger and luckily there was no IT cell or digital penetration in India at that time.
Atal had shared stage with almost all stars regardless of ideology or religion.
He reminded Modi of raj dharma during 2002 pogrom also. A sort of rap from govt for failure to control riots.
Atal govt was encouraging of BW a lot and Lagaan and Devdas were sent as Oscar entries from India during his tenure. Otherwise it was rare for commercial BW films to be sent as Oscar entries earlier.
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