Are you particular about the script?When movies flock to the polls | Political news

In 2019, which was also an election year, Prime Minister Modi mentioned another incident involving Kashmir and another Bollywood film while addressing the inauguration of the National Museum of Indian Film in Mumbai. “How are you doing?” he asked the crowd, which included many Bollywood celebrities, borrowing a line from the blockbuster movie. UriThis was based on a “surgical strike” carried out by the Indian government on mainland Pakistan in response to an attack on an army base.

Gautam starred in both the films and Dhar directed them. Uri produced in 2019 Article 370.

In addition to Uri, 2019 also brought us: mission mangal, which was based on the life of an ISRO scientist who supported India’s Mars exploration program.and the accidental prime ministercentered on Manmohan Singh’s tenure.

After a five-year gap, Bollywood appears to be once again in lockstep with the government on political messaging ahead of the Indian Parliament polls.

Buster: A Naxal Story The trailer of the film talks about how the Naxalist movement left 15,000 civilians and 74 security personnel dead. It added that their killings were “celebrated” by students of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Actress Adah Sharma, who plays an IPS officer, says in the trailer: “In Bastar (Chhattisgarh) the Naxals are trying to destroy the country, and they are being supported by pseudo-intellectuals and left-liberals from big cities… “I’ll collect them.”) Take photos in public on the street. ”

The teaser sparked protests inside JNU, with some students demanding “immediate action” against the film’s production team.

After a week Buster: A Naxal Story, ‘Swatantrya Veer Savarkar’, a biopic on RSS ideologue Veer Savarkar, is scheduled for release. Huda will direct and star in the film. Hooda says in the teaser, “I don’t hate Gandhi, but I hate non-violence.” Last year, the film “Gandhi Godse – Ek Yud”, which depicts a fictional scenario in which Gandhi meets murderer Nathuram Godse, was released.

I also saw it in 2023 vaccine wardirected by Vivek Agnihotri of Kashmir Files fame, the film depicts the Modi government’s efforts to develop an indigenous vaccine in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

2024 has begun main atal hun, based on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Meanwhile, ‘Accident or Conspiracy: Godhra’ is in production. An emergency program on events from 1975 under Indira Gandhi’s government will be aired in mid-year. Kangana Ranaut will be seen playing the role of a former Prime Minister.

Buster: A Naxal Story The film has been produced by the same team that produced 2023’s ‘Kerala Story’. The film is based on the “true story of 32,000 young women” from Kerala who were captured in ISIS camps after converting to Islam, according to its creators. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was among those who condemned the film, saying it “features Sangh Parivar propaganda that projects the state as a hub of religious extremism”.

Vipul Amrit Shah, producer of both films, says, Buster: A Naxal Story “Based on evidence” of events that occurred between 2007 and 2013. “The Naxal menace is now even bigger and there are recent reports that the menace has spread to the cities,” he told The Indian Express.

Asked about the protests within JNU against the film which claims to link the campus with Naxal attacks, Shah said: “There is no denying that there is a strong lobby active within JNU.”

He further said, “This (film) is not pro-government but it is pro-India. It has the right agenda. Our film talks about what is good for India. Now the Bharatiya Janata Party says something similar. If so, that’s their political position.”

Dhar had previously told The Indian Express that Article 370, which features two women in the lead roles, champions “women empowerment” and is based on a “pure story”.

On the other hand, in Andhra Pradesh

The state is witnessing a political war unfolding on screen as the state heads towards simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.

The first one came Yatra 2 February 8th, 2019 sequel yatraThe article featured late Congress leader and former Andhra CM YS Rajashekhar Reddy’s 1,500-kilometre pajatra, which was seen as leading the Congress to victory in the state in 2004.

The latest film highlights the rise of his son and current CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in the wake of the events following his father’s death. It was an ‘odalp’ (condolence) that Jagan undertook in April 2010 to meet the families of those who allegedly committed suicide or died of shock after hearing the news of YSR’s death in a helicopter crash. The focus is on the yatra.

The film also features actors playing the roles of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and Telugu Desam Party supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, both of whom are said to be trying to stop Jagan’s Yatra. There is.

Directed by Mahi V. Raghub Yatra 2said it made sense to time the release to coincide with the election, adding: “For me, there is drama in this story. I don’t care if it’s just a sit-down commercial. What matters is whether there is a universal drama in the story. is the heart of the movie.”

Then there was rajdhani file The February 15 bill, which is based on Jagan’s three-capital proposal, is stuck in court and faces other controversies. The CM had proposed setting up of three capitals, with Amaravati as the legislative capital, Kurnool as the judicial capital and Visakhapatnam as the administrative capital, as a way of “decentralizing development”.

After its release, the film went to court and YSRCP general secretary Lela Appi Reddy filed an injunction petition in the High Court. The court granted an interim stay, but it was only for one day. The film did not do well at the box office.

On March 1, director Ram Gopal Varma’s take on Andhra politics (he calls it a “political commentary”) was released. Vioham Freed. According to the teaser, the film depicts all the major figures in current Andhra politics, including Mr. Jagan, Mr. Naidu, his son Nara Lokesh, and actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan.

The trailer shows that Naidu and Kalyan, who have formed an alliance, are not on good terms and hints at Kalyan’s ambitions to become a commercial.

A follow-up called sapatum is planned.