{"id":307546,"date":"2018-12-28T09:30:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307546"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T09:30:40","slug":"manmohan-singh-refuses-to-comment-on-the-trailer-of-the-accidental-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/manmohan-singh-refuses-to-comment-on-the-trailer-of-the-accidental-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Manmohan Singh refuses to comment on the trailer of &#8220;The Accidental Prime Minister\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301864 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/manmohan-singh-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/manmohan-singh-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/manmohan-singh-474x420.jpg 474w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/manmohan-singh.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday refused to be drawn into the controversy when asked by reporters for a reaction to the trailer of &#8220;The Accidental Prime Minister&#8221;, the biopic based on the book by his former media advisor Sanjaya Baru.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The trailer of the movie was released on Thursday.\u00a0It revolves around the life of former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh. The trailer shows Singh as the victim of the inside politics in Congress ahead of the 2014 general elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The trailer instantly caused a stir on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRiveting tale of how a family held the country to ransom for 10 long years. Was Dr Singh just a regent who was holding on to the PM\u2019s chair till the time heir was ready? Watch the official trailer of #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister, based on an insider\u2019s account, releasing on 11 Jan!\u201d the BJP said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah took to his twitter account and tweeted, \u201cCan\u2019t wait for when they make The Insensitive Prime Minister. So much worse than being the accidental one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala called &#8216;The Accidental Prime Minister&#8217; trailer &#8216;fake propaganda&#8217; and said: &#8220;it\u00a0will not stop Congress from questioning Modi\u2019s government on rural distress, unemployment, demonetisation, the Goods and Services Tax, and corruption.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Anupam Kher, who is essaying the role of Manmohan Singh in the film, said that the movie is going to be a &#8220;game changer&#8221; in political biopics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018The Accidental Prime Minister&#8217; is scheduled to release on January 11, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday refused to be drawn into the controversy when asked by reporters for a reaction to the trailer of &#8220;The Accidental Prime Minister&#8221;, the biopic based on the book by his former media advisor Sanjaya Baru. The trailer of the movie was released on Thursday.\u00a0It revolves around the life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":301864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[10438,857],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307547,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307546\/revisions\/307547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}