MUMBAI – Bollywood actor Anupam Kher and others are reportedly being sued for damaging the image of some top people in upcoming film The Accidental Prime Minister, Indian media outlets reported.
Lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha filed the case in Muzaffarpur’s Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court stating that Kher and Akshay Khanna, who played the role of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his press adviser Sanjaya Baru in the film respectively, have damaged their image.
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“It hurt me and many others,” he said.
The court has admitted the case and fixed January 8 to hear the case in Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate court.
In the complaint, Ojha said others who have played the role of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra also damaged their image. He has also complained against the film director and producer.
Before the legal trouble, Kher had posted on Twitter to complain that the trailer of the film is not easily available on YouTube.
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Satyajeet Tambe Patil – President of the Maharashtra State Youth Congress – had sent a letter to the producer of the film demanding a special screening before it is released.
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The Accidental Prime Minister is based on Sanjaya Baru’s book of the same name and will be hitting the cinemas on 11 January 2019.
