00:00My first thing was, although there was a pain in me, my first awareness in the forest was
00:06the Kannada Contemporary University, Rajkumarji's Gandadugudi.
00:11So Gandadugudi is all about protecting the forest, how a DFO, a forest officer safeguards
00:15the forest, and from smuggling.
00:20So I was sharing with my colleagues the other day in Aranya Bhavan, I was sharing how the
00:26culture transformed.
00:28A hero was around 40 years back, he is someone who safeguards the forest.
00:34And now the hero is someone who cuts away the forest and who is a smuggler.
00:40This we can understand.
00:41So Gandadugudi is all about safeguarding and nowadays the current cinema, of course I am
00:45a part of the cinema also, most of the time I hate, I mean, I struggle to do such films.
00:51I said, am I sending the right message?
00:53But of course cinema is different, but the cultural shift, what happened, that was quite
00:58interesting for us.
01:01So here I would like to do what I could not do in real life, I mean cinema life, but I
01:07wish I am able to do it in real life and I am grateful for politics, I am grateful for
01:12people of IAP for choosing me and getting me elected through Pitapuram and taking charges
01:18at the PDCM.
01:20And all this, all this power, whatever power I have and whatever influence I could do,
01:24it is more for an ecological balance and of course saving the Mother Earth and save Vasudhaika
01:31Kutumbam and it is not just, Earth is not just for few humans, it is for all of us.
01:37And me and Kendraji, we share the same dream and same aspirations.
