Vidya Balan To Play Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, In Film Or A Web Series

After spreading magic as Sulu in Tumhari Sulu, Vidya Balan is now all set to play former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

She will be seen in a project based on journalist-author Sagarika Ghose’s book Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister.

Recently, Vidya said in a statement, “I am happy to have acquired the rights to Sagarika Ghose’s “Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister” because I have always wanted to play Indira Gandhi. I haven’t decided yet whether it should be a film or a web series, but that will take a while anyway.”

Even Sagarika too took to her Facebook and announced this great news. She wrote, “Elated to announce that I just signed the contract for the movie rights of my book, “Indira, India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister” with Vidya Balan and Roy Kapur Productions. Most excited to see “Indira” on screen!”

She also called Vidya an ace. Soon after this news broke, congratulatory messages started pouring in on social media. Replying to a tweet, Sagarika wrote, “You know not only is @vidya_balan a superb Indira, I’ve always thought @AkshayeOfficial looked a bit like Feroze Gandhi!”

In other tweets, Sagarika also tweeted that she thinks that adapting the book to a web series would be a good option, something like Netflix’s The Crown and House Of Cards.