If there’s anyone who can play Prime Minister Narendra Modi on screen, it is his Mumbai based businessman lookalike, named Vikas Mahante.
As expected, Mahante will be playing the lead in an upcoming film based on the PM, titled Modi Ka Gaon. Tushar Amrish Goel, the film’s director recently shared the first look of his political story, featuring Mahante as the man of the hour.
Modi Ka Gaon is reportedly based on rural life in India and how it has transformed for the better under Narendra Modi’s reign. It apparently carries the message of good governance and attempts to portray the PM as a model political leader, who is more a representative of his people than a politician. The film’s release date is yet to be announced.
Post production work on the film is currently underway and it seems Pahlaj Nihalani, the Censor Board chief, has already got a glimpse of the Mahante starrer.
Vikas Mahante surely shares an uncanny resemblance with PM Modi. But what we’re really curious about is how the film will be received in the current scenario, given the Modi government’s recent demonetisation drive, and the repercussions its execution has had on rural as well as urban life across the country.
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