Akshay Kumar To Play The Role Of Prime Minister Narendra Modi In His Next?
It has been nearly four years, biopics has become the trend in Bollywood. With a cinematic projection of real life stories attesting certain messages to people, biopics are now the favored crowd pullers in the concerns of the box office collections and award bagging regimes at the same time.
With the passing years, people are now eagerly chasing the news of upcoming biopics. And, in this regard, Akshay Kumar, a popular Bollywood face has made a couple of biopics that already garnered enough critical acclaim and credits to his versatility in acting.
In addition to that, Akshay’s upcoming movie ‘Toilet’ is all about the establishment of sanitary conditions in village areas. Now, his efforts in bringing such a reasonable movie must be well appreciated, the actor is now ready to come up with another such kind of movie which also promotes the necessity of Swachh Bharat. The latter one is named ‘Padman’ which almost replicates the ‘Toilet’ cast.
However, Akshay’s ‘Toilet’ even attained the eye of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, earning an approval stamp from him. Taking these deeds of Akshay into consideration, CBFC Chief Pehlaj Nehallani in an interview with the popular news channel DNA, praised the kind of movies Akshay makes, he went on congratulating the actor, later also stated that if there is any actor who can be capable of playing the role of Modi, then it will be Akshay himself.
CBFC chief was quoted saying:
“I can’t think of anyone better to play our Prime Minster than Akshay. He has a spotless image of an idealist and visionary. And look at the kind of work he’s doing. Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and Padman are the cinemas of social reform that Guru Dutt and V Shantaram were associated with. Also, Akshay has risen from humble working class beginnings to become a national star, just like Modiji. We are certainly looking at a strong possibility of Akshay playing Modiji.”
The source also claimed that neither Paresh Rawal nor Anupam Kher can play the role of Modi better than Akshay. “But the kind of reach and impact that Akshay Kumar’s presence will have a story on Modi would be far-reaching and productive” he added.
The actor is now working on Padman, which also star Bhumi Padnekar and Sonam Kapoor. He will also be seen as the villain in Rajinikanth’s 2.O, his ‘Toilet’ is all set to release on August 11th of this year.