Vidya Balan to play Indira Gandhi on screen
Mumbai
January 10, 2018
Acclaimed actress Vidya Balan will play former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi onscreen in a project based on journalist-author Sagarika Ghoses
book "Indira: Indias Most Powerful Prime Minister".
"I am happy to have
acquired the rights to Sagarika Ghose's ‘Indira...', because I have always
wanted to play Indira Gandhi. I haven't decided yet whether it should be a film
or a web series, but that will take a while anyway," Vidya, a National Award
winner, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ghose, elated about signing the
contract, wrote: "Most excited to see ‘Indira' on-screen!"
She also
called Vidya an "ace".
The book, published by Juggernaut Books, is a
no-holds-barred biographical portrait that looks for answers to lingering
issues: from why Indira Gandhi revoked the Emergency to her son Sanjay's curious
grip over her; and from her bad marriage and love affairs to her dangerous
religious politics.
"Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister" was
pitched by the publishers to the film and screen community at the Word to Screen
Market 2017, organised by the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
Mumbai
January 10, 2018
Acclaimed actress Vidya Balan will play former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi onscreen in a project based on journalist-author Sagarika Ghoses
book "Indira: Indias Most Powerful Prime Minister".
"I am happy to have
acquired the rights to Sagarika Ghose's ‘Indira...', because I have always
wanted to play Indira Gandhi. I haven't decided yet whether it should be a film
or a web series, but that will take a while anyway," Vidya, a National Award
winner, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ghose, elated about signing the
contract, wrote: "Most excited to see ‘Indira' on-screen!"
She also
called Vidya an "ace".
The book, published by Juggernaut Books, is a
no-holds-barred biographical portrait that looks for answers to lingering
issues: from why Indira Gandhi revoked the Emergency to her son Sanjay's curious
grip over her; and from her bad marriage and love affairs to her dangerous
religious politics.
"Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister" was
pitched by the publishers to the film and screen community at the Word to Screen
Market 2017, organised by the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
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