From being a Jan Sangh activist and subsequently an ordinary Bhratiya Janata Yuva Morcha worker from the orange city of Nagpur to becoming the ‘Expressway Man of India’, Nitin Jairam Gadkari has travelled a long way. Come October 27, a Marathi biopic on the senior BJP leader and Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways will hit the 70 mm screens across Maharashtra.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Prime Ministers late Indira Gandhi, Dr Manmohan Singh and late Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray, it is now the turn of Gadkari to become the material for a full-length biopic.
Titled ‘Gadkari’, the film will dwell upon various aspects of his life involving an interesting political journey that saw him make a mark for himself as the Public Works Department (PWD) in the Shiv Sena-BJP government during 1995-99 when he spearheaded the construction of Mumbai-Pune Expressway -- India’s first six-lane access-controlled toll expressway, and 55 flyovers across Mumbai, a project that eased road traffic problems in the country’s commercial capital.
Presented by Abhijit Majumdar and produced by Akshay Anant Deshmukh, “Gadkari” is directed by Anurag Ranjan Bhusari. Significantly enough, the filmmakers have not revealed yet as to who is playing Gadkari’s role in the film. The poster of the film does not show the face of the actor playing the protagonist’s role in the film.
Gadkari is not a typical politician who goes around seeking votes from people on the basis of tall promises that are not normally kept.
