'Madras Cafe' not based on Rajiv Gandhi: Shoojit Sircar

Updated On: 20 August, 2013 01:02 PM IST | | IANS

Director Shoojit Sircar concedes that his movie 'Madras Cafe', based on the Sri Lankan civil war, may have certain scenes resembling events related to Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, but he clarifies that the film's story is not a biopic on the former prime minister

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At a press conference, Sircar and the film's producer John Abraham, who also plays the lead actor in the movie, were asked if permission was sought from the Congress party to essay an important sequence in 'Madras Cafe' on lines similar to the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.

Shoojit Sircar