India, April 5 -- What if one had to make a film on Mahatma Gandhi today? Or write a book on some great personality to pay them a posthumous tribute? The film's/ book's content would be based completely on research, oral histories, first person accounts and people's perspectives. The content creator could never meet the person to know him better. But he would try to extrapolate a convincing vision nevertheless.

Director Omung Kumar says he did just that in his forthcoming biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi (played by actor Vivek Oberoi) and it should be just seen as an independent effort of recreating the life of a person he was inspired by and no other motive should be attributed to it. However, it has raised questions not because i...