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The Accidental Prime Minister (film)
''The Accidental Prime Minister'' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Vijay Ratnakar Gutte and written by Mayank Tewari, based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Sanjaya Baru. It was produced by the Bohra Bros under Rudra Production (UK), in association with Jayantilal Gada under the banner of Pen India Limited. It stars Anupam Kher as Dr. Manmohan Singh, the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 under the United Progressive Alliance. The film was released on 11 January 2019. It earned a moderate opening of 4.5 crore at the box office on its first day and 22.65 crore overall at the box office. Plot Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, ''The Accidental Prime Minister'' explores the tenure of Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister of India, and the interference of the Congress Party in contradicting his decisions during his first tenure. The movie details how Singh fell victim to the Congress Party's "dynastic approach". The movie h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Gutte
Vijay Ratnakar Gutte is an Indian film director and film producer, producer. He is the son of MLA Ratnakar Gutte from Gangakhed Assembly constituency, Gangakhed constituency of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He is known for his film ''The Accidental Prime Minister (film), The Accidental Prime Minister'' starring Anupam Kher and Akshaye Khanna. The film was based on the on Book written by Sanjaya Baru. He also produced film ''Badmashiyaan'', ''The Film Emotional Atyachar'', and ''Time Bara Vait''. Filmography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gutte, Vijay Indian film directors Indian film producers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh (26 September 1932 – 26 December 2024) was an Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician, and statesman, who served as the prime minister of India from 2004 to 2014. He was the fourth longest-serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi. A member of the Indian National Congress, Singh was the first Sikh prime minister of India. He was also the first prime minister since Nehru to be re-appointed after completing a full five-year term. Born in Gah, Pakistan, Gah in what is today Pakistan, Singh's family migrated to India during Partition of India, its partition in 1947. After obtaining his doctorate in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford, the University of Oxford, Singh worked for the United Nations during 1966–1969. He subsequently began his bureaucratic career when Lalit Narayan Mishra hired him as an advisor in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India), Ministry of Commerce and Industry. During the 1970s and 1980s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Patel
Ahmedbhai Muhamedbhai Patel (21 August 194925 November 2020), also known as Ahmed Patel, was an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from the Indian National Congress. He was the political secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Patel has represented Gujarat for eight terms in the Parliament of India; three times in the lower house or Lok Sabha (19771989) and five times in the upper House or Rajya Sabha (19932020). He was also the treasurer of the All India Congress Committee (20182020). Early life Patel was born on 21 August 1949, in the small village piraman, Ta-Ankleshwar, dist- Bharuch-based agriculturalist family, as the third child of Mohammed Ishaakji Patel and Hawaben Mohammedbhai in the western Indian state of Gujarat. His father was a social worker. He went on to join the Youth Congress, the youth wing of the Indian National Congress. Political career Patel started his political career by contesting local body elections in the Bharuch District of Guja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vipin Sharma
Vipin Kumar Sharma is an Indian actor, editor and filmmaker. He is best known for his acting roles in ''Taare Zameen Par'', ''Gangs of Wasseypur'', ''Kick'', ''Paatal Lok'' and '' Monkey Man''. Early life Sharma spent his early childhood in a slum in Delhi. Though he was interested in acting in films from his early days, it was theater that inspired him initially, especially after he happened to listen to Sanjeev Kumar's interview on radio. He joined a small Punjabi theater group to perform various odd jobs in Delhi, e.g. selling tickets or serving tea. He is an alumnus of National School of Drama, New Delhi, India and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the National School of Drama, India in 2003. Career Sharma made his acting debut with Doordarshan's television series '' Bharat Ek Khoj'' in 1989, followed by his feature film debut ''Krishna'' in 1996, he gained attention for his portrayal of Nandakishore Awasthi in Aamir Khan's ''Taare Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shivraj Patil
Shivraj Patil (born 12 October 1935) is an Indian politician was the Minister of Home Affairs of India, from 2004 to 2008 and 10th Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996. He was Governor of the state of Punjab and Administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh from 2010 to 2015. Previously, he served in the Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi cabinets as Minister of Defence during the 1980s. Patil resigned from the post of Home Minister on 30 November 2008, following widespread criticism raised after 2008 Mumbai attacks, and took moral responsibility for the security lapse that led to the attacks. Early life Patil was born on 12 October 1935 in the village of Chakur in the Latur district ( Marathwada region) of the then princely state of Hyderabad, now Maharashtra, India. He attended Osmania University, Hyderabad, earning a degree in Science and studied law at Bombay University. During 1967–69, he was involved in local government (Latur Municipality). Keshavrao So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anil Rastogi
Anil Rastogi is an Indian theatre, television and film actor. He is known for his roles in '' Udaan'', '' Ishaqzaade'' and '' Na Bole Tum Naa Maine Kuch Kaha''. He has over 1000 theatre performances and was a former scientist of the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow. Early life He was born in Lucknow and completed his schooling from the city, after which he attended Lucknow University for graduate and post-graduate studies. He joined CDRI in 1962 as Junior Research Fellow and retired from the Institute as Head of Biochemistry and Directors Grade Scientist in 2003. His doctorate degree is in microbiology. He is Fellow of National Academy of Sciences of India. He started working in theatre in 1962 and has done more than 1000 shows of 98 plays in Hindi (original or adapted from different Indian or foreign languages) all over the country. He has been secretary/ general secretary of one of the oldest amateur theatre group of India Darpan for more than 46 years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalu Prasad Yadav
Lalu Prasad (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997 with a brief interruption in 1995 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founder and president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) a prominent political party in Bihar. He is also a former member of Parliament (MP) of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. Lalu Prasad Yadav is often regarded as a political messiah for the lower castes in Bihar, particularly the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), and Muslim communities. His political rise in the 1990s marked a significant shift in Bihar's social and political landscape, which had long been dominated by upper-caste elites. He entered politics at Patna University as a student leader and, in 1977, was elected as one of the youngest members of the Lok Sabha for the Bharatiya Lok Dal of the Janata Alliance. He became the chief minister of Bihar in 1990. His party came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee (; born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current List of chief ministers of West Bengal, chief minister of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Cabinet Minister (India), Union Cabinet Minister, Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as ''Didi'' (meaning, ''elder sister'' in Bengali language, Bengali). Banerjee previously served twice as Minister of Railways (India), Minister of Railways, the first woman to do so. She is also the second female Ministry of Coal, Minister of Coal, and Ministry of Education, Minister of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Youth A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priyanka Gandhi
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (''née'' Gandhi; born 12 January 1972) is an Indian politician who is serving as the member of the Lok Sabha for Wayanad, Kerala, since November 2024. A member of the Indian National Congress, she is also serving as a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). Gandhi Vadra is a member of the politically prominent Nehru–Gandhi family. She is also a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. Early life and education Gandhi was born in Delhi on 12 January 1972 to Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, as the younger of their two children. Her older brother Rahul Gandhi is a member of Parliament from Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh and 12th Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha. She is the granddaughter of Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, and Feroze Gandhi, a freedom fighter and politician, and the great-granddaughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Gandhi did her schooling at Welham Girls' School in Dehradun t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aahana Kumra
Aahana S Kumra is an Indian actress. She is known for her television debut in Sony Entertainment Television's '' Yudh'' with Amitabh Bachchan and also for her lead role in the TV series '' Agent Raghav - Crime Branch'' with Sharad Kelkar, followed by leading roles in a number of feature films. Early life Kumra was born and brought up in Lucknow. Career In 2013, Kumra was cast in the television series '' Yudh'' - a 20-episode show starring Amitabh Bachchan in which Kumra plays the pivotal role of Bachchan's daughter. Later, she starred in '' Agent Raghav – Crime Branch'', a biweekly television crime thriller show, as the female lead Agent Trisha Dewan opposite Sharad Kelkar. Kumra won Best Actress Award at the Third Moida International Awards for her short film ''Siberia''. She made her Hindi feature film debut in '' Sona Spa'' in 2013, and her Tulu feature film debut in 2015 in '' Kudla Cafe''. She hosted the Pro Kabbadi 2016 series. In 2017, Kumra had a leading role in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Mathur
Arjun Mathur (born 18 October 1981) is a British people, British-Indian people, Indian actor working predominantly in Bollywood, Hindi films, web series and television serials. He was seen internationally in the British drama series ''Indian Summers'' and plays the lead character in the Amazon Original series ''Made in Heaven (TV series), Made in Heaven'', the latter of which earned him an International Emmy Award, International Emmy award nomination for International Emmy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor. Early life and education Mathur was born in London, England and grew up in New Delhi and Mumbai, India. His father, Rakesh Mathur, is a hotelier. He has an older brother, Gautam and a younger sister, Sonia. His mother Reynoo Mathur, died in a car accident when he was thirteen years old. Mathur studied at St. Columba's School, Delhi, St. Columbas School, New Delhi, St. Mary's School, Mumbai, St. Mary's School, Mumbai, The British School, New Delhi, The British School, New Delh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi (, ; ; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress, a big-tent liberal political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former List of prime ministers of India, Prime Minister of India, and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years. She returned to the post as interim president in 2019 and remained the President for another three years. Born in a small village near Vicenza, Italy, Gandhi was raised in a Roman Catholic family. After completing her primary education at local schools, she moved for language classes to Cambridge, England, where she met Rajiv Gandhi, and later married him in 1968. She then moved to India and started living with her mother-in-law, the then-Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, at the latter's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
