India’s Election Commission ruled that the biopic of the prime minister “has the potential to disturb the level playing field”
THE TRAILER for “PM Narendra Modi” is intended to be stirring. Supporters chant the prime minister’s name, and throng around him, trying to shake his hand. There is emotive music as he addresses a crowd stood atop a car, or strides across a plain to stare into the sun. There are sweeping shots of snow-clad mountains and azure waters as well as flashes of guns, motorbikes and marches.
Those two and a half minutes are all that Indian audiences have been able to see so far. The film was due to be released on April 11th, the first day of voting in the general election, but has been mired in legal disputes. The Delhi High Court approved the release of the film, and the Central Board of Film Certification had few complaints.
“PM Narendra Modi” has proven controversial for its hagiographic tone and its apparent willingness to tinker with the truth. It is a depiction of a man who rose from humble tea-seller to hold India’s top job. The trailer shows Modi , in helpless despair during the rioting in Gujarat in 2002, when at least 1,000 people were killed, most of them Muslims. Mr Modi was chief minister of the state at the time, and his critics have argued that he did not do enough to stop the massacre.
The ban on “PM Narendra Modi” will do nothing to damage the cult surrounding the leader, and Mr Modi needs little help with publicity. In one interview, when asked about a cross-border air strike conducted by the Indian army in February, he claimed that he “went to Pakistan and killed the terrorists” himself. Last week, in a filmed chat with Akshay Kumar, a Bollywood superstar, both men stressed how “non-political” the conversation was .
“PM Narendra Modi” fits into a larger self-aggrandising narrative. That will matter little to audiences: movies that favour the ruling party have found viewers of late. “The Accidental Prime Minister” , a film satirising Manmohan Singh, a former leader from the opposition Congress party, performed reasonably well at the box office. “Uri” dramatised the so-called “surgical strike” by the Indian army on Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in 2016, and is the highest-grossing Bollywood film this year.
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