Filmmaker Ketan Mehta will helm a biopic on his aunt and freedom fighter Usha Mehta. The movie titled Freedom Radio will likely be produced by Anubhav Sinha below his manufacturing banner Benaras Mediaworks.
Usha Mehta was a freedom fighter who began a secret radio station in the course of the Quit Indian Movement in 1942. The radio broadcast messages from Mahatma Gandhi and different outstanding leaders throughout India.
Talking about making the biopic, Ketan Mehta stated in a press release, “Developing this story has been pure joy. Sifting through her (Usha Mehta) personal diaries, and delving into my own memories have been a crucial part of work.”
Mehta additionally shared that Freedom Radio is a movie in regards to the spirit of freedom. It will likely be set within the pre-independence period, and can chronicle how the youth of the nation stepped up when high leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Vallabhbhai Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru, amongst others, have been put in jail by the British.
Ketan Mehta stated he’s comfortable to collaborate with Anubhav Sinha for the movie as he feels that the latter “understands the vision of a filmmaker”.
Commenting about coming on-board Freedom Radio as a producer, Sinha stated, “It’s been a sheer joy working with Ketan on this project. I was taken in by Usha Mehta’s courage and grit. It’s the kind of patriotism that we need to revisit in today’s day and age.”
The forged of the movie is but to be introduced.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
