Review of the movie PM Narendra Modi: A simple hagiography

Sometimes the arrival of a movie in theaters becomes a landmark. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's biopic, titled "Prime Minister Narendra Modi", comes out on the day the BJP celebrates its historic mandate of governing India for a second consecutive term.

The Vivek Oberoi starrer was not allowed to be published. during the elections, but no matter, it is here now, and no doubt, the faithful will flock there, bathed in joy and delirium, chanting, with the film, Modi, Modiiiiii, Modi, Modiiiiii.

Because there is nothing else to do. to do: the film ensures that it is, at every moment, properly respected by its subject, man and boy, while it traces the amazing trajectory of Narendra Damadordas Modi, son of & # 39; chai-wala (Gupta) to a & # 39; pracharak & # 39; of the RSS, in Gujarat, then on the national scene, ending with the swearing in 2014.

Those who have swallowed the myth fabricating the myth will see the film as a reaffirmation of their faith. . And who cares about the disbelievers, while they pick up their jaws on the floor while the film goes from one laundering to the other: that, young man, Modi left a potential marriage alliance and s & rsquo; Was made in the Himalayas to do tapasya '; that the post-Godhra riots could not be controlled because the "neighboring states" had not "helped"; Messiah Modi was a "lay" badistant during earthquake relief operations; And so on.

After a while, you stop counting. The film is not a simple bio-image, it is a hagiography in its own right, shameless and shameless.

He takes his warning (which loathes in the opening credits) to take the liberties of creativity very seriously. Those who lived during the time when "Jai" Modi grew up and created a space in the political firmament, with the help of his "Veeru", Amit Shah (Joshi); this coupling "Jai-Veeru" I think you can not ask if there is an alternative universe in which he lives.

True to his tone and tenor, he is completely reverent to his subject, projecting him as noble and sacrificial and wise beyond his years, even at a very young age, whose love for his own & # 39; ba & # 39; (Wahab) is never more than the love that he has for Bharat Mata. The opposition is presented as being weak and venal (Manmohan Singh does not have a single moment of speech, he keeps only the word "maun"); a corrupt businessman (Narayanan) is accused by an accomplice journalist (Kumar) who plots the fall of Modi; Sonia and Rahul Gandhi and their cohorts turn out to be ineffective critics.

Even his own party colleagues, with the exception perhaps of Vajpayee, are just numbers, because he cuts inexorably up the post. Boman Irani as a legendary industrialist who brought Tata Motors into Gujarat, after leaving Bengal, is more visible than the former prime minister who had such a big hand in Modi being able to get to where he finally succeeded .

As Modi At the beginning of the film, it is said in Oberoi – aapko abhineta nahin, neta hona chahiya tha. – and then faithfully reads a mediocre and lax scenario. No more than a frame scrolls without the leading man dominating the screen, which reflects what has happened in real life over the past five years. This is where the reel and the real intersect. Of course, there is not a single subtle note within two hours and a little while: everything is emphasized as follows: "Violence has no religion and religion does not have violence"; "Chai bechta tha, unki tarah desh nahin", "baap ka naam nahin, buss aap ka kaam", and this one that prevails over all, "Modi ek soch hai; aap sab mein hai Modi '. 19659007] The film does not offer questionable points, no choice, no gray areas There is no mention of "Hindutva" but only "Hinduism", which is also, as he says a "soch." As a bio-pic, he lives in a confused and post-truth territory, but as a hagiography, genuflexing on the altar of the man, it's perfect. critical, uncertain, high in rhetoric, and there is nothing accidental about it