Actor Supriya Vinod played Indira Gandhi in director Madhur Bhandarkar’s political drama Indu Sarkar (2017) which was based on the events during the emergency period of India in 1975. Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh was seen as the late Sanjay Gandhi in the film. Later on, Supriya also played Indira Gandhi in the Telugu biopic NTR: Kathanayakudu (2019) and its sequel NTR: Mahanayakudu (2019) of the actor turned politician N.T. Ramarao who served as Chief Minister of the undivided state of Andhra Pradesh
Her uncanny resemblance to the former PM helped Avantika Akerkar bag a role in Nawazuddin Siddiqui-led 'Thackeray' which was released in 2019. She had a brief yet very important role in the film centered around the life of Shiv Sena supremo late Balasaheb Thackeray
Flora Jacob has portrayed the role of Indira Gandhi on screen twice. First, she made a very convincing appearance as the late PM in the film Raid starring Ajay Devgn in the lead. More recently, she essayed Gandhi in Kangana Ranaut's Thalaivi
While it was public knowledge that Lara Dutta was a part of the 2021 film Bell Bottom co-starring Akshay Kumar and Vaani Kapoor. However, when the trailer of the film released people wondered why Lara was not a part of it. To everyone's surprise, it was later known that Lara Dutta was playing the former Prime Minister and was totally unrecognizable which has to be a massive feat for any artist involved in the process of creating the look. The film is inspired by the real-life events of hijacking of flights that took place in the 1980s
Kangana Ranaut has been the latest actress to surprise everyone with her portrayal of Indira Gandhi. While the film is yet to release, the makers had dropped a teaser video featuring Kangana as Indira and the audience was blown by the accuracy. The film titled 'Emergency' will deal with the emergency phase in India in the early 1970s
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