Choosing change over campaign

Updated On: 09 January, 2024 06:12 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

Main Atal Hoon director says he designed late PM Vajpayee’s biopic not as a political film, but as story of a man who brought about change

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Pankaj Tripathi

When Main Atal Hoon’s producers called director Ravi Jadhav to offer the project to him, he was in the midst of developing another film. On hearing the subject, he was immediately willing to leave the project to helm the biopic on late Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. “It was that instant reaction for me. I’ve always wondered how a poet went on to become the country’s prime minister. The core of any artiste is emotions, and politics is the exact opposite of it,” smiles the National Award-winning director.

Ravi Jadhav