Acclaimed performer Vidya Balan will play previous Prime Minister Indira Gandhi onscreen in an undertaking in view of writer 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, distributed by Juggernaut Books, is a down to business true to life representation that searches for answers to waiting issues: from why Indira Gandhi renounced the Emergency to her child Sanjay’s interested grasp over her; and from her awful marriage and relationships to her unsafe religious legislative issues.
Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister was pitched by the distributers to the film and screen group at the Word to Screen Market 2017, sorted out by the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.