Andhra Pradesh deputy chief minister and actor Pawan Kalyan almost chose a different career path before his brother veered him away from it. On the ANI podcast with Smita Prakash, the actor-politician admitted that he had almost joined Naxalism and had even attended a few jana sabhas (public meetings) before deciding not to venture into it. Chiranjeevi veered Pawan Kalyan away from getting into naxalism. 17-year-old Pawan Kalyan wanted to become a naxal Pawan spoke on the podcast about how enraged he was by the state of affairs in the world. Stating that he was an 80s teenager, he stated that the South African apartheid, the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) movement in Sri Lanka, which had repercussions in Chennai, Cold War reflections, unrest in a unified Germany, Khalistani militancy and more were having an effect on him. “I even entertained getting into the Naxalites. One point in time, when I was in my late teens, yes. Yes, I wanted to pick up the gun. That’s when my brother pushed me into something more …