'Sure that The Accidental Prime Minister will be a great success, says co-producer Ashoke Pandit brushing off partiality claims

Ever since the inception of its trailer, 'The Accidental Prime Minister', has been a magnet to controversies. Backing the film, co-producer Ashoke Pandit sounded optimistic about the political film.

Pandit said that the film is based on the book written by Sanjay Baru, who was a media advisor to the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. 

He said, "The film is based on the book of Sanjay Baru, it should be seen as a film. I am assured that the film will have great success." 

Pandit affirmed that the film is made with impartiality, "This is a political film, we have seen the political film in the past but this is different and as a co-producer, I want to say that we have made this film with honesty and impartiality. 

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Addressing the controversies and complications, he added, "This is not a complicated issue. The book is in the market for the past 10 years." 
 
Objections have been raised by the Congress party, calling this a 'propaganda' by the BJP prior to the Lok Sabha elections 2018. 

Earlier, on Thursday, the President of the Maharashtra State Youth Congress wrote a letter to Sunil Bohra and Dhaval Gada, the producers of The Accidental Prime Minister saying that ‘facts have been played with’ and ‘presented in an incorrect manner’ in the trailer of the film in order to 'malign' the image of Congress party and its leaders former PM Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. 

Demanding a special screening of the film before its release, the Youth Congress leader also added that scenes maligning party's image would be deleted and edited.

The movie is helmed by debutant director Vijay Ratnakar Gutte and is scheduled to release in March 2019. 

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