The makers of PM Narendra Modi received a lot of flak for planning to release the movie on April 12, a day after the first phase of voting for the Lok Sabha elections. But the date was changed to April 5. The film's director Omung Kumar B said the call was taken by the team. They felt it was the right time to release it as the biopic is not a propaganda film, he said.

The film's first poster, featuring actor Vivek Anand Oberoi as Modi, was unveiled in January. Omung and his team travelled to Gujarat to finalise the locations and start the shoot. Now, it's almost ready. "It's probably the fastest movie being made and released. It's exciting to do something like this because the scale is so huge," Omung told IANS in an interview over the telephone from Mumbai where he is racing against time to complete the movie.