The Accidental Prime Minister row: Anupam Kher lands in trouble! Case filed against the actor for 'damaging' image of leaders
Yet only the trailer of the film ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ is out, it has created a huge buzz across the country during the election season and gathered a bunch of controversies as the film is focusing direct attack on the Gandhis, especially Sonia Gandhi. In a fresh report, The Accidental Prime Minister and its members, including veteran actor Anupam Kher have landed in legal trouble. A case has been filed against the film and actor in a Bihar court on Wednesday for mangling with the image of top leaders.
The petition has been filed by a lawyer named Sudhir Kumar Ojha against the movie in Muzaffarpur’s chief judicial magistrate court. What surprising here is, that the court has admitted the case and will hear the plea on January 08 by the case in Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate Court.
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According to the petition, the lawyer has complained that Akshay Khanna and Anupam Kher, who are playing the role of former prime minister press advisor and prime minister respectively, that they have mangled the image of the two top leaders. However, it doesn’t end here, lawyer Ojha has also said that the other actors who are playing he role of the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra, and Rahul Gandhi also harmed their image in the eyes of the public.
The film is based on a controversial book, Accidental prime minister’ by Sanjaya Baru, who was also the former prime minister's press advisor, and Indian policy analyst. The movie is all set to hit the theatres on 11th January 2019.
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First published: 3 January 2019, 10:52 IST