Karan Johar’s next on C. Sankaran Nair; Know more about the film and its makers

Karan Johar. Pic/Satej Shinde

The winds of change are blowing at Dharma Productions. Karan Johar, who is synonymous with making films with gloss, is now making a biopic. On Tuesday, he announced that his next production is based on the life of C Sankaran Nair (1857-1934), the former president of the Indian National Congress and member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, the cabinet of the government of British India.

Titled 'The Untold Story of C Sankaran Nair' the biopic has been adapted from the book, The Case That Shook the Empire, written by Nair's great-grandson, author-banker Raghu Palat and his wife Pushpa. The film, helmed by Karan Singh Tyagi, will unravel the courtroom battle that Nair fought against the British to uncover the truth about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

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The makers are yet to announce the cast of the movie.

C. Sankaran Nair (L); Raghu Palat (R)

B-Town will not exactly be new territory for Raghu and Pushpa Palat. Their daughter is theatre personality Divya Palat, who is married to actor Aditya Hitkari. Younger daughter Nikhila's hubby is actor Vivan Bhathena.

Besides this film, Johar is also producing movies 'Sooryavanshi', 'Brahmastra', 'Dostana 2', 'Meenakshi Sundareshwar' as well as Madhuri Dixit-starrer web series 'Finding Anamika' and season two of 'Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives'. His next directorial venture is period drama 'Takht', starring Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Anil Kapoor, Janhvi Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar.

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