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| 'Film on Narendra Modi |
| 'Film on Narendra Modi not image-building exercise'
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| INDIA
, 27-August-2013
4:48:30 AM |
| Narendra Modi's journey from a common man to the chief minister of Gujarat has caught the fancy of NRI filmmaker Mitesh Patel, who is making a projected Rs.40 crore movie on him. He admits the film on the politico couldn't be better-timed, but denied it being an "image-building exercise" for Mr Modi ahead of the general elections due next year.
The idea for a movie on Mr Modi's rise to power set in two years back in Patel's mind. And it was just last week that Mr Patel met Mr Modi in Gandhinagar.
"He said, 'You can make it'," Mr Patel, who will produce the project, told IANS over phone from Ahmedabad. He is here scouting for locations for his film
"The elections are coming, and I think it's perfect timing for my film," said Mr Patel, adding that the movie will essentially delve on how Mr Modi progressed from being a tea stall worker to a political leader, who is now seen by many as the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate.
"I am very impressed by his progress, so my movie is based on him and his struggle. I wish to give a positive message through the film. I have met him and explained my idea to him, and he said, 'Okay'," Mr Patel, who is originally from Baroda, said.
Is it an image-building exercise?
"I am not targeting anything like that. The film is just on him, and it is not an effort to present any sort of truth. May the best person win the elections, but my film is not for any image-building," he clarified.
The yet untitled movie is likely to go on floors in September, and it may be shot in Mumbai and Gujarat.
The film's director and cast are yet to be locked. However, writer Mihir Bhuta, and Kishore Makwana, a close Modi associate, who has penned a book titled "Samaajik Samrasta" based on Mr Modi's speeches and writings, are helping Patel to put the film together.
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