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'The Modern Monk' book inspired by Swami Vivekananda to get screen adaptation

'The Modern Monk' book inspired by Swami Vivekananda to get screen adaptation

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'The Modern Monk', a book about Swami Vivekananda's relevance to present-day life and times, is set to be made into a film.

Film producer Sunil Bohra has bought the rights of the book, written by Hindol Sengupta and published by Penguin Random House India.

"India has a great heritage and I want to make films on some of the people like Swami Vivekananda and Sardar Patel who have built this heritage. It`s my tribute to our country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Bohra said in a statement.

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Bohra earlier had also bought the rights of 'The Man Who Saved India', a book on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,for a web series.

"More than perhaps any other person in the last 200 years, Swami Vivekananda spoke most passionately of a vision of a renewed, reinvigorate Indian civilization which serves as a beacon of peace and prosperity to the world.''

"I wrote 'The Modern Monk' to explain in the most contemporary language the importance of Vivekananda's vision for the past, present and future of India and I am delighted to partner with Sunil Bohra, a visionary in the world of cinema, in bringing this story to millions of people," Sengupta said.

Apparently, the work on the project has begun to get the process started.