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Sanjay Gandhi’s ‘daughter’ sends legal notice to Indu Sarkar director Madhur Bhandarkar

Hindustan Times | BySubhash K Jha, New Delhi
Jun 29, 2017 08:13 PM IST

Gurgaon-based Priya Singh Paul, who claims to be the daughter of Sanjay Gandhi, wants to stop the release of upcoming film, Indu Sarkar, which is based on Emergency of 1977.

There’s hardly a month left for the release of Madhur Bhandarkar’s film, Indu Sarkar, which recreates the events during the Emergency of 1977 in India. And guess what? A woman who claims to be the daughter of Congress politician and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s late son, Sanjay Gandhi, has sent a legal notice to director Bhandarkar, producer Bharat Shah, Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Information & Broadcasting, and Pahlaj Nihalani, the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), to stop the CBFC from giving it a go-ahead.

Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh (R) stars in Madhur Bhandarkar’s film.
Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh (R) stars in Madhur Bhandarkar’s film.

In a four-page legal notice (HT has a copy of the notice) dated June 23, Gurgaon-based Priya Singh Paul claims that she has come to know that her “father” Sanjay Gandhi and her grandmother Indira Gandhi (played by actors Neil Nitin Mukesh and Supriya Vinod in the film), are shown in roles “without accurate or with sufficient historical data” and may be shown in “poor light”. It asks for the release to be stopped until she is shown the film and gives her nod. The recipients of this startling legal notice have been given a week to respond.

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While Bhandarkar refused to comment, Nihalani says, “We had no idea Shri Sanjay Gandhi had another child besides Varun Gandhi. The notice says Ms Priya Paul Singh is his ‘biological child’. Unless the Gandhi parivaar acknowledges her claims, we can’t act on Ms Singh’s objections to the film.”

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