A Bollywood biopic planned on Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch
Mulayam Singh Yadav and planned to be released in 2016 has been shelved.
Mulayam was unceremoniously ousted as SP president last
month following a bitter power feud in the Uttar Pradesh government, SP and the
ruling Yadav clan.
The biographical film titled ‘Neta ji: Mulayam Singh Yadav’
on the septuagenarian leader was announced at a hotel in Lucknow on August 12, 2015 in the presence of
several SP leaders, including from his native Saifai village.
Proposed to be made on a budget of Rs 30 crore, the silver
screen caper was then projected to be completed and commercially launched
around September 2016. Ever since, there has been no news
about the project nor was it released subsequently.
The launch ceremony was also graced by then powerful Uttar Pradesh
cabinet minister and Mulayam’s younger brother, Shivpal Singh Yadav, who had unveiled
the film’s poster as well.
The film was planned to be released in both Hindi and
English languages and the concept had the blessings of the Yadav family, film’s
director Vivek Dixit said.
The biopic would have etched Mulayam’s journey from Saifai
village in Etawah as a poor agricultural family boy to finally rising up the
ranks and becoming the chief minister of UP in 1989. Mulayam has been the CM
for three terms altogether.
The film was launched under the banner of Godfather Films
and Shilpa Motion Works, Mumbai and was to be produced by the trio of Sandeep
Shukla, Sarvjit Sigh and Vivek Dixit.
Dixit had noted he was influenced by Mulayam’s persona and
his film would reflect the hitherto unknown facets of his personality and toils.
While the film’s star cast was still not final, the names Rahul
Bose and Raghuvir Yadav had been doing the rounds as the likely Bollywood
actors to essay the title role.
Interestingly, paeans have in the past been dedicated to Mulayam,
including in the form of a ‘Chalisa’ (40-verse rhythmic poetry) to eulogise him
and his regimes.
As things stand today, the fate of the film is unknown and
the project has probably been shelved for good.
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