Battle spills over to reel space
With the electoral turf getting tricker and tougher by the day, all eyes in the saffron camp are now centred on three forthcoming films — The Accidental Prime Minister, Indira and Narendra Modi’s biopic.
A senior BJP leader said these films “will expose the truth about the leaders and help build perception among the electorate”.
While The Accidental Prime Minister will not exactly be a glorification of former PM Manmohan Singh and show how the Nehru-Gandhi clan had used him, the web series Indira is expected to reveal two sides of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi — one as “Durga” and the other as a “terrible dictator who imposed the Emergency and tried to destroy institutions, from her own party to the judiciary”.
The biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi will highlight the struggle of an ordinary poor man, who through his sheer determination and love for the nation had risen to power.
Actor Anupam Kher, FTII chief, whose wife Kirron Kher is a BJP MP, will play Dr Manmohan Singh in The Accidental Prime Minister, based on the 2014 book of the same name by Sanjaya Baru.
BJP president Amit Shah on Monday met Yoga guru Ramdev and former chief justice of India, RC Lahoti as part of his party's "Sampark for Sam ar than( contact for support)" campaign and shared the Narendra Modi government's achievements with them. The campaign is
part of the programmes to mark the completion of Modi government's four year and also with an eye on the coming Lok Sabha elections.
"I met yoga guru Swami Ramdev as part of 'Sampark for Samarthan' programme and informed
him about the Narendra Modi-led government's achievements and public welfare policies in its four years of rule," Mr Shah tweeted after his meeting with the yoga guru's ashram at the outskirts of Delhi.
Following Modi government's fourth anniversary on May 26, the BJP had launched this mega
public drive, where 4,000 of its leaders, including the party president will reach out to one lakh
people - well-known names in their fields - to spread the word about Modi government's works
in its tenure. Mr Shah will himself contact 50 persons.
Mr Shah had met former Army chief Dalbir Singh Suhag and Constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap on May 29 and cricket legend Kapil Dev on June 1.