August
11 sees the announcement
and launch of a film based on the life of a politician from Allahabad, 43-year-old Nand Gopal Gupta whose life story seems
to be straight out of a Bollywood film. Born to a postman in the heart of
hinterlands of UP, Nand Gopal Gupta spent his childhood doing odd jobs to
support his father and his mother who made paper bags for a living.
His
love story with a girl from Allahabad whose family opposed it so severely that
they would rather have him dead, his wedding and his phenomenal rise makes for
a very interesting script.
Nandi’s
rags to riches story is exciting as he grew to be a powerful industrialist. His
electoral debut with the Mayavati Government in 2007 caused the BJP to lose its grip over the
assembly segment which it had never lost since 1989. Nandi defeated five-time MLA Keshri Nath
Tripathi by a margin of more than 14,000
votes. Tripathi had incidentally served thrice as the Uttar Pradesh assembly
Speaker and was the BJP's state unit president at that time.
Nandi,
the proverbial dark horse, in an electoral contest that was being viewed as a
"clash of titans", had humbled Tripathi and relegated Rita Bahuguna
Joshi, then the Congress woman's wing president and its future state unit
chief, to the insignificant third position. Nandi went on to become the Cabinet
Minister in the Mayavati Government. The BJP could not recover from the upset
it suffered in 2007 as Tripathi finished
third in the electoral contest five years later.
Today,
Nandi is the BJP man who holds the portfolio of the Minister of Stamp and Civil
Aviation in the BJP-led Government of Uttar Pradesh, while his wife Abhilasha
Gupta is an achiever in her own right.
The current and the youngest Mayor of Allahabad, Abhilasha Gupta
defeated her nearest rival Kamla Singh of the BJP by a comprehensive margin of
more than 69,000 votes, a record of
sorts. Incidentally, she was an independent candidate and there were more than 29 candidates in the fray for the mayoral
elections.
No
wonder then that Allahabad-based Director K Hussain Naqvie, who saw the
intrigue in the life of this charismatic leader decided to make a film on the
life of Nandi, under the banner Shabeena Films International. The music of the
film is by Sanjeev-Darshan with one song by Akbar Ali, while the
screenplay-dialogues are by Dilip Shukla. The cast is yet to be finalised, but
talks are on with an ‘A’ grade actor essaying the role, reveals director K Hussain
Naqvie.
The
makers also had a song recording of the film with the vocals of Anaya and
Stebin Ben with lyrics by Kishan Paliwal
and set to tune by Akbar Ali along with the launch. Besides the
composers and the singers and the maker, actors Athar Siddiqui, Rneha Arya and
Nafe Khan, lyricist Sanjeev Chaturvedi, comedian Naveen Kumar, and Executive
Producer Rishi Chaurssia among others graced the occasion.
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