As October brings around Vinod Khanna's birth anniversary, Mukesh Tyagi, well-known Bollywood actor, corporate honcho, BJP spokesperson and former CEO of Enron India, looks back on the evening,  he says changed the actor's life, transitioned Vinod Khanna from Abhineta to Neta.

The narrative around Bollywood actors entering politics often follows a predictable script: star power leveraged by political strategists for quick electoral gains. But the story behind the late superstar Vinod Khanna's move into politics, as Mukesh Tyagi tells it, is grounded, personal and spontaneous. It began not in a party war room but at a social gathering in Mumbai, in a conversation with Tyagi, then a VP  at Enron in India.