A Telangana Congress leader has proposed making a Telugu feature film on Sonia Gandhi's life based on her autobiography, Belonging: A Journey of Love, but no film has been commissioned and there is no word that she or her publisher has agreed.
T. Jagga Reddy, working president of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, told a Congress workers' meeting in Sangareddy that leaders and cadres from the Sangareddy Assembly constituency should jointly produce the film. He asked them to fund it themselves. "You spend on elections, right? Consider this a similar expense. Let's mobilise the budget and select a good director," he said, according to an agency report.
Constituency Congress convenor Julakanti Anjaneyulu announced a contribution of Rs 2 crore towards production. Jagga Reddy proposed a 50-member committee, to be overseen by Gandhi Bhavan public relations officer Hariprasad, and said Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and TPCC president B. Mahesh Kumar Goud would be invited to launch the shooting once preparations were done. Copies of the book are to be bought and distributed among party workers.
He said the film would cover her life as Indira Gandhi's daughter-in-law, Rajiv Gandhi's wife and the mother of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, the years after the two assassinations, and her entry into politics. Her decision in 2004 not to take the Prime Minister's post, he said, "will remain a significant chapter in Indian political history."
The autobiography, running to 544 pages, was published by HarperCollins India on 10 November and has dominated political conversation this week, with the BJP attacking its contents and Priyanka Gandhi defending her mother's right to tell her own story.
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