Sadiq Khan is gunning for his third time period as London Mayor
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, gunning for a 3rd time period, has a request for Bollywood: he desires them to redo the superhit ’Amar Akbar Anthony’.
Mr Khan, born in London in 1970 to oldsters who had arrived from Pakistan, explains why he believes that that is the best second for such a request from a metropolis like London which is not unfamiliar to Bollywood.
”I’ve a Proposal to Bollywood. Please redo Amar Akbar Anthony within the UK as a result of we now have a Christian king (Ling Charles III), a Muslim mayor (he himself) and a Hindu Prime Minister (Rishi Sunak),” stated Mr Khan, who grew up in public housing along with his six brothers and sister in Tooting, an ethnically various residential space within the south of the town.
”I would get to play Amitabh Bachchan’s half,” the Mayor stated with a chuckle.
The film featured Vinod Khanna (a Hindu police officer), Rishi Kapoor (a Muslim qawwali singer) and Amitabh Bachchan (Christian liquor vendor).
”London is the primary place for Bollywood movies to be filmed and for folks to return and spend money on. I am wanting ahead to Indians coming right here as college students, as vacationers, as buyers, and for areas for Bollywood films,” stated Mr Khan, who joined the Labour Celebration aged 15.
Mr Khan often recollects how his father drove London’s well-known purple buses, his mom was a seamstress and one in every of his brothers is a motor mechanic.
”One of many explanation why London is the best metropolis on this planet is as a result of Indians have chosen to make it their dwelling. These are Londoners who’ve gone on to grow to be docs, enterprise folks, politicians, chemists, pharmacists, scientists, journalists and so forth. Our variety is a energy. London is a spot the place you’ll be able to fulfil your potential. I name it the London Promise,” stated Mr Khan, who made a reputation for himself as a vocal critic of Brexit.
In 2005 he gave up his authorized profession on changing into the member of parliament for Tooting, the place he nonetheless lives along with his lawyer spouse Saadiya and their two daughters.