On Mahatma Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary yesterday, Sandeep Singh, Raaj Shandilya and Mahesh Manjrekar together announced a new film ‘Godse’. The film will tell the story of Nathuram Godse who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi.
The makers launched a motion poster for the film that had a vintage feel with Nathuram Godse wishing a very happy birthday to Gandhiji and ‘Raghupati Raghav Rajaram’ playing in the background. Sharing the poster, ‘Dream Girl’ director Raaj Shandilya wrote, “The Deadliest Birthday wish ever! Get ready to witness a story no one dared to tell before!
Sandeep Singh, Raaj Shaandilyaa & Mahesh Manjrekar announce a film “Godse” on Mahatma Gandhi’s 152nd birth anniversary”
Talking about ‘Godse’, producer Sandip Singh wrote, “The Nathuram Godse story is the one which I wanted to tell ever since I made my first film. This is an untold tale that deserves to be presented to the cinemagoers. There are various versions of the stories about Godse and Gandhiji. Mahesh, Raaj and I intend to bring out the factual story and thereby bring this cinematic opus of forgotten history characters for today’s generation”.
“The story of Nathuram Godse has always been close to my heart. It takes a lot of courage to back a film of this nature. I always believe in hard hitting subjects and uncompromised storytelling and this one fits the bill. People do not know much about Godse other than he’s the man who fired at Gandhi. While telling his story, we neither want to patronize nor want to speak against anyone. We’ll leave it to the audience on who is right or wrong” said Mahesh Manjrekar.
‘Godse’ will be directed by Mahesh Manjrekar (‘Vaastav’, ‘Astitva’) with Sandip Singh (‘Mary Kim’, ‘Aligarh’, ‘Sarabjit’) via his Legend Global Studio and Raaj Shandilya (‘Dream Girl’) via his ThinkInk Picturez producing the film. Vimal Lahoti, Jay Pandya and Abhay Verma will serve as co-producers for ‘Godse’.
Sandip is already collaborating with Raaj and Mahesh for ‘White’, scheduled for Dussehra 2022 release. Other than this, Sandip and Mahesh are also working on another film ‘SwatantraVeer Savarkar’.