Startling & shocking as it may sound, a lady claiming to be a slain Congress politician & youth leader Sanjay Gandhi’s daughter has sent a legal notice to the director Madhur Bhandarkar, Minister Of Information & Broadcasting M Venkaiah Naidu, chairperson of CBFC Pahlaj Nihalani & producer Bharat Shah to stop the CBFC from certifying Bhandarkar’s political film Indu Sarkar from release.
The film recreates the events during the dreaded Emergency that was clamped on Indian democracy in 1977. The lady Priya Singh Paul claiming to be Sanjay Gandhi’s “daughter” in her 4 page legal notice dated 23rd Jun, 2017 states that she has come to know that her “father” Sanjay Gandhi & her grandmother Indira Gandhi played by Neil Nitin Mukesh & Supriya Vinod, are shown in roles “without accurate or with sufficient historical data” and may be shown in “poor light”.
The legal notice goes on to say that the release of the film should be stopped until Ms. Priya Singh Paul is shown the film & approved by her. The recipients of this startling legal notice have been given a week to respond. While Madhur Bhandarkar refused to comment, CBFC Chairperson Pahlaj Nihalani expresses bafflement over the content of the legal notice.
