''7 RCR...Projecting India's Future'' is an Indian television politics-based reality series/documentary series, hosted by Indian author, columnist, and speaker

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on Hindi news channel ABP News, which premiered on 11 January 2014. This is a show of dramatized biographies of all those who have the mettle to make it to 7 Race Course Road, the Prime Minister's official residence, presented in the most interesting manner. It aims to bring to the audience the never seen before facts of

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. The 7 RCR show started immediately after the much critically acclaimed

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hosted by

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Cast

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as Ambalal Khosti, RSS Pracharak *

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as Indira Gandhi *

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as Rajiv Gandhi * Dharmesh Tiwari as

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* Suzanne Bernert as Sonia Gandhi * Kartik Soni as

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*Sangam Rai as

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Episodes

Episode URLs

Reception

Social media

The show noticed a huge engagement on social media with the #7RCR trending on Twitter for over 4 days in India on its launch. The hashtag was promoted heavily by ABP News through running contest on Twitter started on 18 January 2014. The lucky winners of the #7RCR contest were given

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. Following the 7RCR's success,

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started a documentary series named Aandolan, which is narrated by Om Puri.

Controversies

The producer of this series, ABP News, came under controversy over showing Arvind Kejriwal under negative light. Use of language on defining every aspect of his life has been overly negative. Arvind Kejriwal himself tweeted about his surprise over the episode on his life. ABP News itself in under criticism for producing biased news.. On the contrary, ABP News has appealed to Arvind Kejriwal to tell about the 'fictional' part of the show and has mentioned that he will be given space to clarify his stand.

External links

7RCR Contest

7RCR website on ABP News

References

{{Reflist ABP News original programming Hindi-language television shows Indian reality television series Indian documentary television series Cultural depictions of prime ministers of India Indian political television series Cultural depictions of Rajiv Gandhi Cultural depictions of Narendra Modi Cultural depictions of Indira Gandhi 2004 in Indian television Rahul Gandhi Kejriwal government Nitish Kumar Jayalalithaa Jaswant Singh Nehru–Gandhi family