P M Narendra Modi is Not a Propaganda ; Vivek Oberoi

Actor Vivek Oberoi, his lawyer appear before EC over PM Modi
“It is just a coincidence that the film (PM Narendra Modi) is releasing ahead of the elections. It is not a propaganda film. I am an individual who has a credible body of work over the last 18 years, more than 45 films and more than 26-27 awards. So, I stand my ground there. I don’t need to make him appear as a hero. He is a hero to billions of people across the world,” said Vivek Anand Oberoi to a news channel, amid controversies and allegations surrounding the release of PM Modi’s biopic.

“It is the story of a chaiwala who became the prime minister of India... an inspiring story that needs to be told. I did the film because PM Narendra Modi inspires me,” he added during the interview. Vivek mentioned that the transformation to Narendra Modi’s character was a prosthetic process that took 5-6 hours every single time. “It was a tapasya of its own kind,” he shared. “Because I am shooting at 7 in the morning, I had to get into my prosthetic makeup at 1 am. So, I had to be up at midnight, shower, get ready and in that chair, getting make-up and prosthetics done all through the night, so that I can shoot in the morning,” the actor explained.

“I wanted to emulate him on screen rather than mimicking him… trying to capture the spirit of the man and the inspirational story, rather than trying to get the mimicking aspects right,” he elaborated.
Opposition parties have accused the government of using cinema as propaganda, and demanded that they should postpone the release date so as to not influence voters. This Omung Kumar directorial is slated to release on April 5, just a week before the elections.