Now, Mevani plans film on Modi

Manas Dasgupta

Ahmedabad, December 31

In retaliation of “The Accidental Prime Minister,” Gujarat’s Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani has announced to produce a Hindi film on the life of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Though the project is still at its conceptual stage, Mevani said the film would be completed and released in April-May 2019 before the Lok Sabha elections. He said the title of the film would be “Chowkidar Hi Chor Hai”, a slogan coined by Congress president Rahul Gandhi for Modi, accusing him of irregularities in the Rafael deal. 

“The Accidental Prime Minister” based on the life of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sparked off a major political controversy between the BJP and the Congress with both the parties matching each other in trading barbs.

Mevani’s film would highlight Modi’s style of functioning both as Chief Minister of Gujarat for 12 years and as Prime Minister. He said the film would also focus on adverse impacts of Modi’s “Tughlaqi” decisions like demonetisation and “faulty” implementation of GST, ‘social divide’ in Gujarat, harassment of Dalits and minorities and other issues along with some important events of his life. 

An advocate by profession, Mevani emerged as a young Dalit leader by taking up the cause of the four Una Dalit youths who were mercilessly beaten up by some self-styled cow vigilantes.

Though he refused to join any political party, the Congress did not field any candidate against him in the Vadgam reserve constituency in the 2017 Assembly elections. If not openly, the Congress is likely to extend all indirect assistance to help Mevani complete his film project before the parliamentary elections. 

‘Chowkidar Hi Chor Hai’

Though the project is still at its conceptual stage, Gujarat’s Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani said the film would be completed and released in April-May 2019 before the LS  poll. He said the title of the film would be “Chowkidar Hi Chor Hai”, a slogan coined by the Congress chief for Modi, accusing him of irregularities in the Rafael deal.