{"id":3981,"date":"2016-03-02T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T06:57:29","slug":"the-accidental-prime-minister-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"The Accidental Prime Minister Review: A Disappointing Launch for the BJP\u2019s 2019 Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\u00a0\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he Accidental Prime Minister<\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a movie starring the husband of a sitting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/citizenship-bill-assam-protests-bjp-minorities\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BJP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> MP and the son of a former BJP MP, and directed by the son of somebody who stood for the 2014 assembly elections on a BJP ticket. So it\u2019s safe to assume that none of these chaps have any ulterior motive in sucking up to Modiji by making a propaganda movie just four months before the general elections. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Accidental Prime Minister<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> appears to be a layered film. In order to go and enjoy it, you first create a little dent in your pocket by spending on fuel to get to the theatre, and thereafter owing to inflation and GST, you exhaust your life savings on popcorn. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s by design but before you watch the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/accidental-prime-minister-manmohan-singh\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manmohan Singh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> biopic, you witness the Modi biopic unveil in front of you. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie starts off in the year 2004. The UPA has won the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/state-of-the-nation-whats-at-stake-for-the-congress-and-bjp-in-the-madhya-pradesh-election\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">general elections<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Sonia Gandhi \u2013 played by the grown-up version of the robot Vicky from the hit \u201990s show <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Small Wonder<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 turns down the post of Prime Minister, appointing Manmohan Singh instead. As Manmohan takes office and grapples with the new job, he appoints the dashing Sanjaya Baru as his media adviser. Baru, who is played by Akshaye Khanna, who in turn is trying to play Frank Underwood from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House of Cards<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a former business editor. Unlike Manmohan, Baru takes to his new job like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/koffee-with-karan-hardik-pandya-isnt-a-brat-he-is-an-outright-misogynist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hardik Pandya<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to West Indies culture \u2013 very easily. At its core, the movie is an exploration of the working relationship shared by the two men as they wade their way through red tapism, an authoritarian boss, and endless political mind games. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie documents the UPA decade the way the BJP would like to document it in future history textbooks: A demonised <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/sonia-gandhi-narendra-modi-india-rahul-gandhi-congress-indira-gandhi-rajiv-gandhi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gandhi family<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a dumbed-down Rahul, and Modi projected as India\u2019s saviour. If indeed one can call it a movie, considering the whole thing has about as much finesse as a tacky street play put together by kids for the Republic Day celebrations in their building. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Unlike Manmohan, Baru takes to his new job like Hardik Pandya to West Indies culture \u2013 very easily.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They say that this movie is an adaptation of the book by the same name, authored by Baru. But the writing is so lazy that I doubt anyone on team even bothered to read the book completely before making the movie \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know because I read it<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Baru served at the PMO only between 2004 to 2008. The book (at least most of it) gives an interesting first-person account of what went on in the PMO during that time. Although rightfully critical of Sonia Gandhi, the book also clearly suggests that the people who were actually vouching for Dr Singh\u2019s downfall in this story were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/rss-pranab-mukherjee-congress-sharmistha-muherjee\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pranab Mukherjee<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, AK Antony, and Arjun Singh. They were unsuccessful mainly because Dr Singh had the backing of Sonia Gandhi during UPA 1. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, in the movie version \u2013 as with the BJP\u2019s narrative of the Congress \u2013 Sonia is responsible for everything. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But here\u2019s the thing that should have been apparent to anyone who has read the book. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a fairly successful first stint as media adviser to the PM during UPA 1, Baru was denied the job during UPA 2 by Sonia and gang \u2013 in his own words he \u201cfelt betrayed\u201d. Hence, Baru reserves his most scathing criticism of the PM and the Gandhis\u2019 functioning during UPA 2 in the 15-page epilogue of the book, when he wasn\u2019t an insider or present in the PMO. He was like any other journalist \u2013 speculating on the goings-on in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/rbi-governor-vs-government-bjp-bank-money\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">government<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the outside. In fact, the epilogue seemed like a bad Dear John letter from a spurned lover. Yet, the majority of the second half of this movie is based on just those 15 pages. Baru was so upset by Singh and Sonia that he released the book one month before the general elections in 2014. Should we be surprised that the movie is now out just a few months before the crucial general election of 2019? \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As far as the performances are concerned, there\u2019s nothing left for me to say. Because Anupam Kher has already given himself the Oscar for \u201cBest Actor \u2013 Sonia\u2019s Critics Choice\u201d and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/website\/story\/india-news-the-accidental-prime-minister-is-my-lifes-best-work-anupam-kher\/322517\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">compared his performance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Ben Kingsley\u2019s portrayal of Gandhi. And you know what, I agree with him. Because I don\u2019t know any other actor who can consistently walk like a penguin on stilettoes while indulging in some slow-motion robot dance. Look, I really don\u2019t know if he sounds like Manmohan, but I know for sure he sounds like Sachin Tendulkar; especially after Sachin was told that he\u2019d have to pay the taxes for his Ferrari. If the makers have been so particular about casting people who look the part, then I can\u2019t understand what <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/dil-chahta-hai-akshaye-khanna-dimple-kapadia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akshaye Khanna<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is doing here. Cinematic liberties and all are ok, but in real life neither is Baru a stud macha, nor does he dress dapper like Khanna. Trust me, I even googled \u201cSanjaya Baru Hot Pics\u201d to see if I was missing \u00a0something. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If anything could have saved this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/gunda-20-years-kanti-shah\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">film<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it would probably be the background music. If the music director had raised the levels by a few more decibels, it\u2019d have ensured the actors wouldn\u2019t be heard and the movie would have become a tad more watchable. The editing is so bad, the scenes so poorly cut and abrupt, that the final film seems more like a highlights package of the main film. <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Cinematic liberties and all are ok, but in real life neither is Baru a stud macha, nor does he dress dapper like Khanna.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve all come across method actors. But Vijay Gutte is probably the first method director in the world. To really understand <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/corrupt-politicians-elections-vote-banks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">corruption<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and scamming, the man himself got arrested in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/entertainment\/hindi\/bollywood\/news\/filmmaker-vijay-gutte-gets-bail-in-rs-34-crore-gst-fraud-case\/articleshow\/65411476.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GST scam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for cooking up fake bills and causing a loss of \u20b934 crore to the state exchequer while making this movie. But he must have made the government so proud of his commitment to the film that he was let go on bail. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, somewhere in his failure to make a good, authentic film on the 10 years of UPA, Gutte manages to deliver a movie that resembles the UPA era \u2013 incoherent, helmed by corrupt people, and that familiar feeling of wondering when the fuck you\u2019ll get done with this bullshit. Despite all its flaws, I\u2019m extremely sure the movie will cross \u20b9500 crore at the box office \u2013 because the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/congress-2-0-2019-politics-gandhi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congress<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has always made money. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All in all, if this is the launch of the BJP 2019 campaign, I am pretty disappointed. I think they are in a bad place because now the onus rests on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/happy-birthday-vivek-oberoi-saathiya-company\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vivek Anand Oberoi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to save them. And nobody puts that sort of pressure on Vivek. My instinct says that we would all be better off if Modiji himself acted in the biopic\u2026 and Vivek Oberoi ran the country. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in his failure to make a good, authentic film on the 10 years of UPA, Vijay Gutte delivers a movie that resembles the UPA era \u2013 incoherent, helmed by corrupt people, and that familiar feeling of wondering when the fuck you\u2019ll get done with this bullshit. 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