Actor Pankaj Tripathi shared a video from the biopic ‘Main Atal Hoon’ on Instagram on May 4. Earlier on December 25, 2022, the first look of the film was shared on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It is directed by National Award winner Ravi Jadhav and will release in December this year.
Tripathi shared a video that includes behind the scene of the making of Atal Bihar Vajpayee with the caption, “Insan Bano keval naam se nahi, roop se nahi, shakl se nahi..Hriday se, Buddhi se, Sarkar se, Gyan se..” followed by #MainATALHoon shooting commences soon! In cinemas December 2023.
In December Tripathi shared the first look of the film with caption, “Na kabhi Kahin dagmagaya, na kabhi kahin sar jhukaya, main ek anokha bal hoon, main Atal hoon.” The actor expressed joy for getting the opportunity to portray the role of the former Prime Minister and said that he felt honoured for doing a biopic on him.
In the video, Pankaj is seen within a dhoti-kurta and a jacket with prosthetics to resemble Atal Bihari Vajpayee. A video clip introduces him as a PM, poet, statesman and gentleman.
“I know that it is necessary for me to work on my personality with restraint in order to make ‘Atal’ ji’s personality come true on screen. I have firm faith that I will be able to do justice to my new role with enthusiasm and morale,” he added.
Main Atal Hoon is presented by Bhanushali Studios Limited and Legend Studios. It is produced by Vinod Bhanushali, Sandeep Singh, Sam Khan and Kamlesh Bhanushali and co-produced by Zeeshan Ahmad and Shivv Sharma. It is written by Utkarsh Naithani and has music by Salim Sulaiman, with lyrics by Sameer. Sonu Nigam has lent his voice for the film.
The recent video shared by Pankaj Tripathi sends chill among the audiences, the admirers of the former Prime Minister are waiting for the film to release in cinema houses.
Atal Ji dies on August 16, 2018, leaving behind his unmatchable legacy. He sowed a seed for an idea and a party that is blooming and prospering in the name of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Vajpayee was one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the BJP. He was a poet and a writer.
Among all of the achievements of his life the greatest remains, The Kargil War, The Nuclear test at Pokhran and his contribution to the education sector.
For the education sector, his foundation of the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan that made education a fundamental right for children aged between 6 and 14 years is commendable.
Under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, India gained the status of ‘full-fledged nuclear state’. Pokhran-II was the second Indian nuclear test, the first being ‘Operation Smiling Buddha’ conducted in May 1974.
A variety of sanctions were issued to India by a number of major states, including the US and Japan.
The period after the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War was characterised by long periods of relatively few armed conflicts involving the armies of India and Pakistan. During the 1990s, there were escalating tensions between the two nations due to separatist activities in Kashmir, some perpetrated by Pakistan. The conducting of nuclear tests by both countries in 1998, led to an increasingly fragile atmosphere.
In a move that almost marred the progress presumably achieved by the Lahore Declaration, Pakistani soldiers infiltrated the Indian border disguised as Kashmiri militants and assimilated themselves into positions on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LOC).
The armed conflict is a significant example of high-altitude warfare in mountainous terrain. It is also an example of the direct confrontation of armed forces between nuclear states.
On 11 July, after extensive fighting, and being prompted by the US to withdraw its troops from the remaining Indian positions along the LOC, Pakistan withdrew its troops from the area completely.
The casualties accounted for 527 Indian soldiers being killed, while 1,363 soldiers were wounded. The day is marked as Kargil Vijay Diwas.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was one of the most influential leaders of modern India, with his tenure and experience in politics extending from pre-independent India to modern India (1942 to 2009). He is remembered by his peers, and others alike, as being a soft-spoken yet powerful orator.
In regards to foreign policy, Vajpayee boosted trade and bilateral relations with the US, resulting in the historic summit of 2000 where President Bill Clinton became the second American President to visit India after Jimmy Carter in 1978. He also strengthened India’s ties with its neighbouring China, where his government initiated a structured mechanism for high-level dialogue to resolve border disputes between the two nations. Under Vajpayee’s Prime Ministership, India’s ties improved with South Asian and East Asian countries.
Vajpayee is also remembered for his efforts to normalise ties with Pakistan, where in February 1999, he inaugurated the Delhi-Lahore bus service and travelled in it to meet the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Shariff.
He was presented with India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 2015, by the then-President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. The Modi government declared, in 2014, that Vajpayee’s birthday on 25th December would be observed as ‘Good Governance Day’.
No wonder the viewers are waiting for his biopic curiously.
