Back in the frame

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Hamirpur Member of Parliament Anurag Thakur heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. He is also the son of BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in Himachal Pradesh, Prem Kumar Dhumal. Since being removed from the post of president of the Indian cricket board earlier this year, Thakur has struggled to make headlines. The row over Hindi movie Padmavati has offered him an opportunity to claw his way back into limelight. The Thakur-led parliamentary committee on IT might have little do with films, but it asked Padmavati director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, chairperson of Central Board of Film