Actors Akash Thosar and Rinku Rajguru, who played the roles of Archie and Parshya in Nagraj Manjule’s Sairat, have been appointed as brand ambassadors by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Maharashtra has fallen behind in youth voter enrolment in the past years. Thus the decision of ECI to introduce young faces for the ’empowerment of youth and future youth voters’.
The duo’s pictures will be on banners across the state, to spread the message of exercising voting rights in the upcoming elections.
On the work front, Akash is busy with Mahesh Manjrekar’s FU. Rinku is doing a cannada version of Sairat and preparing for her board examinations.