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Anupam Kher will play Manmohan Singh in 'The Accidental Prime Minister'

The movie is expected to hit the screens in December 2018

Bollywood actor Anupam Kher during the "Tawi Kinare"  The Jammu Literary Festival 2015 at Abhinav theatre in Jammu
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Bollywood actor Anupam Kher during the “Tawi Kinare” The Jammu Literary Festival 2015 at Abhinav theatre in Jammu

BS Web Team Mumbai
Veteran actor Anupam Kher has been finalised to play Manmohan Singh in a movie based on former prime minister's media adviser Sanjaya Baru’s book, ‘The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh’. 

To be directed by debutant Vijay Ratnakar Gutte, the memoir by Baru was critical of Singh's first term as PM and had coincided with the 2014 parliamentary polls. The movie is expected to hit the screens in December 2018, just ahead of the next general election in 2019. The first look will be unveiled on Wednesday.

Producer Sunil Bohra said it will be a political

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