The Election Commission (EC) has stopped Bollywood biopic PM Narendra Modi from releasing on April 11, when the Lok Sabha election begins, but a web series on the Prime Minister — released just over a week ahead of the polls — has been playing on.
The trajectory of Eros Now’s Original Series Modi: Journey Of A Common Man, helmed by OMG — Oh My God! fame director Umesh Shukla, is similar. It quietly made its way to the OTT space, but there has hardly been any brouhaha over its content or timing, save its mention in a letter penned by 66 ex-bureaucrats to President Ram Nath Kovind, raising questions on how the EC did nothing besides seeking more details on the series.
But Shukla made light of it, “The content of my series is not such that there will be complaints to the EC unnecessarily. It’s a normal human’s story. Maybe it has to do with the medium of Internet. Maybe the code of conduct is different... I don’t know the rules, but if there was something (a complaint), we would have heard about it,” Shukla said. — IANS
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