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Vidya Balan to turn producer, will produce Indira Gandhi web series

15 Mar 2018

Its not Vidya Balan s husband Sidharth Roy Kapur who will produce the Indira Gandhi bio-pic based on journalist-author Sagarika Ghoses biography Indira: Indias Most Powerful Prime Minister. Vidya Balan herself will produce films now under the banner Vidya Balan Films, quite separate from her husbands SRK Productions. Says a source, Vidya now feels the need to generate content that she would like to be part of. Not that she will star in everything she will produce. But Vidya will most certainly like to do bio-pics on personalities she admires such as Indira Gandhi and Lata Mangeshkar. Some years ago, Vidya was pencilled in to do a bio-pic on the legendary Carnatic singer M S Subbalaxmi and more recently she had agreed to be part of a bio-pic on author Kamala Das. Both projects fell apart, prompting Vidya to take matters into her own hands. Says the source, The Indira Gandhi bio-pic will require loads of research on Vidyas part and her entire dedication for the next few years. Vidya is doesnt intend to make it as feature film but as a web series, as the vast stretches of plot and incidents in Mrs Gandhis life cannot be rendered in two hours. Incidentally Vidya Balan is not the first actor to aspire to play India Gandhi. Ten years ago Manisha Koirala was all set to play Mrs Gandhi in a bio-pic to be directed by N Chandra. It never happened. Read Also: Vidya Balan starrer Tumhari Sulu to be remade in Tamil