MUMBAI: Veteran actor Anupam Kher, who is essaying the role of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in “The Accidental Prime Minister”, said on Thursday the film is a “game changer” in political biopics as it does not shy away from taking real names.
The film is based on the book of the same name, written by Sanjay Baru, who served as Singh’s media advisor 2004 to 2008. Akshaye Khanna features as Baru.
The trailer shows Singh as the victim of the inside politics of the Congress party ahead of 2014 general elections, which the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) lost.
Asked if the ruling BJP Government, which lost three State elections recently to Congress, would use the film as a tool in the run-up for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Kher said, “If I would have been in politics I would have definitely told them to do so. But I am an actor, they will decide.”
We did not start the film thinking that this kind of political scenario will be there. It is a political film based on a book, whatever the book has said we have tried to make that,” he added.
Kher said the film is open to interpretations and it would be wrong to say that it supports or criticises a particular political party.
“There will be different kind of interpretations and one can have their own interpretation. People release patriotic films during Independence Day or Republic Day. This is a political film and we would like to release it in the election time. What is the problem in that?” he said at the trailer launch of the film. (AGENCIES)
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