NEW DELHI: Aditya Birla Group-owned content material studio Applause Leisure, has introduced a biopic on Mahatma Gandhi, primarily based on the writings of historian and writer Ramachandra Guha. The venture shall be a multi-season sequence tailored from his two books – Gandhi Earlier than India and Gandhi – The Years that Modified the World. Pratik Gandhi, of Rip-off 1992- The Harshad Mehta Story fame, will play the lead.
Applause is thought for exhibits like Felony Justice, Hostages, The Workplace, amongst others.
“Ramachandra Guha is a historian and storyteller par excellence, and we’re honoured to adapt his basic books – Gandhi earlier than India, and Gandhi – The Years That Modified the World – to display screen. We imagine that solely a richly layered, multi season drama sequence will do actual justice to Gandhi and to all the good personalities that embed the proud and illustrious historical past of India’s freedom battle. It is a story of the birthing of recent India for a worldwide viewers,” Sameer Nair, CEO, Applause Leisure mentioned in a press release.
Guha added that Gandhi’s work remodeled the world, and his legacy nonetheless sparks essentially the most intense debates. “His life was an epic journey, performed out throughout three nice nations: India, England and South Africa. He fought nobly for freedom, for inter-faith concord, and for the rights of the underprivileged. Alongside the way in which he made many pals and never a couple of enemies too. I’m delighted that my books on Gandhi at the moment are being tailored for this bold and thrilling sequence being produced by Applause Leisure. I’m assured that it’s going to carry the advanced contours of Gandhi’s life and the ethical essence of his teachings to viewers throughout the globe,” he mentioned in a press release.
Supply: Live Mint