New Delhi, Delhi, India

In a massive relief to the makers of ‘PM Narendra Modi’ biopic, the Supreme Court of India today refused to intervene in the release of the film. 

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A petition was filed in the court to stall the release of the film during the general elections in the country. 

To this, a bench led by the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said the Court cannot step in unless it was clear about what the film was “seeking to depict” and what petitioner Aman Panwar, a Congress activist, is objecting to about the movie.

Gogoi asked senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who represents Panwar, “We have not seen the film. We do not know the contents of the film. How can we order anything without knowing what we are ordering about?” asks CJI Ranjan Gogoi.

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Singhvi submitted in Supreme Court, “song released in the movie is exactly the same as that of BJP’s 2014 election campaign. The anthem of the BJP are being tweeted about. Trailer begins with an enthusiastic kid saying “yeh chai wala PM banega. Lyricist of the film incidentally is the CBFC chairman. This is about level playing field and electoral integrity.”

However, the bench dismissed the plea and said that the Election Commission of India. will decide on the issue. Top court said it was premature for the court to decide on the issue as the film is yet to be released and hasn’t been awarded certification by the CBFC. 

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The film was initially scheduled to release on April 5 but was postponed indefinitely. The makers are yet to announce the release date. 

Meanwhile, speaking about the petition, the film's lead actor Vivek Oberoi said that to be labelled, targetted, attacked is painful. "It's a passion project, something that’s taken an entire team to put this together at this scale. But then to meet this resistance, to be labelled, targetted, attacked - its painful. I didn’t think that a simple, humble movie would intimidate powerful and important people that they would go all out to get it to shut down. When the High Court supported us on this, they took it to it the honourable Supreme Court," he told WION.