India, April 13 -- Biopic on Modi has been banned by CEC until 2019 Lok Sabha elections get over.

The present Election Commission of India (ECI), had it been around in the 1980s, may have stopped the screening of Attenborough's Gandhi on the grounds that exhibiting the movie gave an electoral advantage to the party in which the Mahatma served for much of his life. Similarly, it may have advised US authorities to block the screening of Spielberg's Lincoln during the period when a Presidential election was taking place, so that Lincoln's Republican Party did not derive (what in the Commission's view would be) an unmerited advantage caused by such a screening. The Chief Election Commissioner and his colleagues have banned Vivek Oberoi's bi...