PM Narendra Modi

PM Narendra Modi is a 2019 Indian biographical film directed by Omung Kumar and jointly produced by Suresh Oberoi, Sandip Ssingh, and Anand Pandit. The film is based on the life of Narendra Modi, the 14th Prime  Minister of India; starring Vivek Oberoi in the lead role who is also credited as co-writer of the film. The first look of the film was released on 7th January 2019. The film was released theatrical in India on 24 May 2019. It received generally negative reviews from critics, who termed it a hagiography and panned Oberoi's performance.

Cast

 * Vivek Oberoi as Narendra Modi
 * Manoj Joshi as Amit Shah
 * Boman Irani as Ratan Tata

Production
Initially actor Paresh Rawal was to play Narendra Modi in a biopic that he was also producing. Before that film was materialised, PM Narendra Modi was announced in parallel with Vivek Oberoi selected to play the lead role.

Filming
Filming began on 27 January 2019 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Some vital scenes in the film chronicling Modi's early life and political journey was filmed in Uttarkashi district. Final schedule of filming was held at Mumbai. Vivek was injured during the shoot while doing a scene in Uttarkashi.

Marketing and release
NSUI's Goa unit of the student wing of Congress Party, has written to Election Commission to ban the screening of the film claiming it violates the model code of conduct of elections. A plea filed at the Supreme Court of India to stop the release was rejected. The court said the constitutional body Election Commission is the appropriate authority to address the petitioner's concerns. On 9 April 2019, the film was certified by the CBFC alloting 'U' certificate with run time of 130 minutes. Election commission has stopped the release of the movie till the elections are over saying, "that any biopic 'which has the potential to disturb the level playing field during the elections should not be displayed in the electronic media'". The film was theatrically released in worldwide on 24 May 2019. A new poster of movie has been released a day before of release of movie with tag line "Aa rahe hai dobara, ab koi nahi rok sakta" marking Narendra Modi's victory in 2019 election.

Marketing
Producers Suresh Oberoi and Sandeep Singh released a first-look poster of the film on 7 January 2019, revealing actor Vivek Oberoi as the eponymous Modi. The official trailer of the film was released on 20 March 2019. Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC), set up by the Election Commission, has served a notice to the producers and T-series over an advertisement which was carried in two hindi newspapers announcing the movie trailer with an image of Narendra Modi.

Critical reception
Ananya Bhattacharya of India Today criticised the movie's bias towards the protagonist by stating "Even the most controversial parts of PM Narendra Modi's life - the Godhra riots - are planted on the Opposition as a way to keep Modi from serving his people".

Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in said, "Any insights the movie offers into Modi’s rise are inadvertent. The monomaniacal focus on one man above all else will surely be of interest to those who study how cinema can be used for propaganda."

Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India criticized the script and gave an average 2.5/5 rating stating "This one is too lopsided for you to appreciate. It leaves a lot unanswered. While it firmly believes ‘Modi ek insaan nahi, soch hai’, we wish the script was as thoughtful" however she praised Vivek Oberoi's acting- "He gets the mannerisms, accent and tone right and thankfully doesn’t overdo it." Audience polled for The Times of India gave the film 2.1/5.

Writing for The Indian Express, Shubhrata Das gave the movie 2/5 rating and stated that "The film is not a mere bio-pic, it is a full-fledged, unabashed, unapologetic hagiography."

Kenith Rosario of The Hindu summarized the movie's narrative as "a obsequious love letter" to the protagonist and tells the audience "how sincere, hardworking, fair and honest Modi is, that it makes you wonder if life is a parody of this film."

Box office
The film earned ₹2.88 crore from domestic market on opening day.

Soundtrack
The music of the film is composed by A. R. Rahman, Hitesh Modak and Shashi-Khushi while the lyrics are written by Javed Akhtar Prasoon Joshi, Sameer, Abhendra Upadhyay, Irshad Kamil, Parry G. and Lavraj. Two songs, one Suno Gaur Se Duniya Walon from Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt starrer a 1997 unfinished film Dus and the other Ishwar Allah from the film 1947: Earth, starring Aamir Khan, Nandita Das and lyrics by Javed Akhtar used in this film

Initially, Javed Akhtar and Sameer were unaware about their works from old films being reused in this film. They tweeted they have not written any songs for the film after finding their names on the film' credit row. The film's producer Sandip Ssingh clarified that the credits were given because their songs from previous movies were included.