It was a mixed bag for star contenders in the fray at the hustings.
While Shatrughan Sinha, Jayaprada, Chiranjeevi and Navjot Singh Sidhu tasted victory in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, star contestants like Vinod Khanna, Nafisa Ali and Ambareesh bit the dust.
Patna's 'Star War' ended in victory for BJP's shotgun Shatrughan Sinha who trounced Congress candidate TV actor Shekhar Suman with a margin of more than two lakh votes.
Actress-turned-politician Jayaprada, the Samajwadi Party candidate from Rampur, defeated her nearest rival Congress candidate Noor Bano Begum by 12,093 votes.
Former cricketer Navjot Singh Siddu, BJP candidate from Amritsar, defeated Om Prakash of Congress while singer Hans Raj Hans from Akali Dal, contesting from Jalandhar, lost to Mohinder Singh Kaypee of Congress.
Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi, who floated the Praja Rajyam Party, had mixed fortune on his electoral debut as he lost one and won one Assembly seat in Andhra Pradesh.
Chiranjeevi won from the temple town of Tirupati but lost from Palakollu in his native West Godavari district.
"I look it at positively. People are with us and we achieved something on political front. We will do better next time," Chiranjeevi said.
The results were disappointing for the star contenders in Karnataka as all the three film stars M H Ambareesh, Ashok and C P Yogeeshwar bit the dust.
Ambareesh, the Congress Party candidate who had won the Mandya parliamentary seat three times in succession, lost to N Cheluvara Swamy of the Janata Dal-Secular by 23500 votes.
Actor-turned-politician C P Yogeeshwar from BJP was defeated by former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy.
Actor Ashok, who contested from the Tumkur Lok Sabha seat on a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket, also lost.
Former Miss India Nafisa Ali, who was roped in by Samajwadi Party as its candidate from Lucknow after actor Sanjay Dutt was denied permission to contest elections by the Supreme Court, got only 61,457 votes.
The Lucknow seat went to BJP candidate Lalji Tandon, who defeated his nearest rival Rita Bahuguna Joshi of Congress by a margin of over 40,000 votes.
