17 June,2018 11:49 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
Sanjay Raut
A biopic on veteran leader George Fernandes is in the pipeline. Interestingly, the film is going to be produced by Sanjay Raut, a leader of the Shiv Sena, a party with which Fernandes-led trade unions clashed several times in 1960s.
The script is ready and he is in the process of identifying a team for making the film which would be in Marathi and Hindi, Raut told PTI. The Sena Rajya Sabha member is also producing a biopic on Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray.
Fernandes, born in south Karnataka, started his political career in Mumbai as a trade union leader. Among other languages, he speaks Marathi fluently. The film's focus will be on the period from the mid-fifties to Emergency.
Fernandes, a charismatic leader, became famous as a giant killer when he defeated Congress veteran S K Patil in the latter's bastion in Mumbai in the 1967 Lok Sabha election.
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Fernandes is said to have inspired the character of union leader D'Casta in Arun Sadhu's Marathi novel "Mumbai Dinank". The character also featured in the subsequent Jabbar Patel-directed film "Simhasan".
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