Confirmed! Vivek Oberoi will feature in PM Narendra Modi biopic, first poster to be out on January 7
Mumbai, Jan 04: It's raining biopics in Bollywood. After producing former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's life in office on the big screen, another biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been announced. Starring Vivek Oberoi in the lead, the film is being directed by Omung Kumar and produced by Sandeep Singh. Earlier, several reports claimed the announcement but nothing was official.
Film critic Taran Adarsh announced the news on Twitter in a post saying, "IT’S OFFICIAL... Vivekanand Oberoi [Vivek Oberoi] to star in Narendra Modi biopic, titled #PMNarendraModi... Directed by Omung Kumar... Produced by Sandeep Singh... First look poster will be launched on 7 Jan 2019... Filming starts mid-Jan 2019."
The movie is set to go on floors around mid-January, however, a release date hasn't been finalised yet.
A few days ago, Bollywood Hungama published a report which read that the Saathiya actor would be using his full name - Vivekanand Oberoi in the credits for the movie. The project, as per sources, is to be shot extensively across different parts of the country - from Modi's hometown in Gujarat to Delhi, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
Currently, besides former PM Manmohan Singh, biopics on political leader Balasaheb Thackeray, and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N.T Rama Rao are prepping up to screened soon. The Narendra Modi biopic might show the humble beginnings of dynamic politician who started off as tea vendor to becoming the Prime Minister of the world's largest democratic country.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Vivek was last seen in Kannada movie Commando and Tamil film Vivegam. He would next be seen in the Malayalam movie Lucifer and Vinaya Vidheya Rama, which is a Telugu flick.
IT’S OFFICIAL... Vivekanand Oberoi [Vivek Oberoi] to star in Narendra Modi biopic, titled #PMNarendraModi... Directed by Omung Kumar... Produced by Sandip Ssingh... First look poster will be launched on 7 Jan 2019... Filming starts mid-Jan 2019.
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) January 4, 2019
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NDA's win in Bihar Assembly bypolls a matter of concern: Prashant Kishor
Patna, Nov 23: Political strategist turned activist Prashant Kishor on Saturday dubbed as "a matter of concern" the NDA's win in assembly by-polls in Bihar despite "failure" of the BJP-led coalition to end the state's chronic backwardness during it's decades-long rule.
Talking to reporters here shortly after the results were out, Kishor also drew succour from the fact that his fledgling Jan Suraaj won "10 per cent" of the total votes polled in four seats, but rubbished the claim that it had played a role in the RJD's defeat in three of these.
"RJD is a 30-year-old party. The son of its state president finished third. Can Jan Suraaj be faulted for that? In Belaganj all Muslim votes went to the JD(U) candidate. In Imamganj, the Jan Suraaj cut into NDA votes. Else, the victory margin of (Union minister) Jitan Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha would have been bigger", asserted Kishor.
Notably, Imamganj, a reserved seat, was retained by Manjhi's daughter-in-law Deepa, who defeated the RJD candidate by a thin margin of less than 6,000 votes. Jan Suraaj candidate Jitendra Paswan finished third, polling more than 37,000 votes.
When pointed out that in three of the four seats, candidates of Jan Suraaj had polled less than one-sixth of the total votes and ran the risk of losing their deposits, Kishor shot back "That should not be a matter of concern (chinta ki baat). If there is a matter of concern, it is the ability of the NDA to make a clean sweep despite having ruled Bihar for so long and "failed" to end the state's backwardness".
The IPAC founder, who had a brief stint in the JD(U), insisted that the party's supremo Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, was a "spent force" and its candidate, former MLC Manorama Devi, had won on her own steam.
"We have always said that our fight is with NDA, not with RJD despite its claim of being the largest party in Bihar.....(but) Nitish Kumar is no factor. His party polled just about 11 per cent of total votes", said Kishor.
About his own party's inability to make a mark, Kishor said "We have secured 10 per cent votes..... in seats where Jan Suraaj had no presence since these areas were yet to be covered by my padyatra. Also, please note that we got our poll symbol after filing of nomination papers was over".
He also maintained that the Jan Suraaj will go solo in the assembly polls due next year when it will contest "all 243 seats".
"We were initially written off but by garnering about 10 per cent votes, in a state known to vote along predictable caste lines, we have proved a point. In the next few months we shall be strengthening the organization to ensure that vote share of the Jan Suraaj improves", he said.
