Actor-director Prithviraj Sukumaran will direct and star in a Hindi web-series based mostly on the lifetime of Rajan Pillai, popularly generally known as the ‘Biscuit Baron’ of India. Prithviraj will play the titular function and can inform about Pillai’s life. On Tuesday, Yodlee Films formally introduced the challenge. The manufacturing home shared the main points of the challenge in a tweet. The tweet learn, “A Hindi web series inspired by the life story of India’s ‘Biscuit King’ – National Award winning @PrithviOfficial with Rajan Pillai playing the lead role and also directing the series.”
The makers additionally shared the actor’s first look from the sequence. The poster reveals Prithviraj wearing colours and looking over a metropolis with what seems to be like an airplane window.
A businessman by occupation, Rajan Pillai was a shareholder of Britannia Industries. He was based mostly in Singapore within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, from the place he held positions on the biscuit corporations Nabisco, Huntley & Palmer, Britannia. He was investigated by the Department of Commercial Affairs of Singapore in 1993.
On 4 July 1995, the Indian police arrested him in a pre-dawn raid on the five-star Le Meridien Hotel in New Delhi, and took him to Tihar Jail. Pillai appealed for therapy. However, there was no response to the attraction and Pillai died in custody the following day as a consequence of problems of liver cirrhosis. At the time of his demise, he was awaiting an extradition listening to.
Rajan Pillai’s youthful brother Rajmohan Pillai co-authored a e book with Ok Govindan Kutty titled A Wasted Death – The Rise and Fall of Rajan Pillai, which launched in 2001.
The Prithviraj-starrer is at present in pre-production and can begin in mid-2022.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
