The Accidental Prime Minister Movie Row: After the unfortunate demise of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Vir Sanghvi made a comment on Anupam Kher starrer The Accidental Prime Minister. He called it ‘one of the worst Hindi movies’ and alleged that the movie tarnished the image of a ‘good man’. Reacting to it, filmmaker Hansal Mehta wrote on X ‘(+ 100)’. Anupam Kher called him ‘HYPOCRITE’ as he was the creative director of the film. The war of words didn’t stop here, Hansal fumed at Kher’s tweet and wrote a long note to defend his part. 

Earlier, Vir tweeted, “If you want to remember the lies that were told about Manmohan Singh you should rewatch The Accidental Prime Minister It is not only one of the worst Hindi movies ever made but is an example of how media was used to tarnish the name of a good man.” Hansal then tweeted it and wrote “(+ 100).” Anupam Kher then commented on his tweet and wrote “The HYPOCRITE in this thread is NOT @virsanghvi . He has the freedom to not like a film. But @mehtahansal was the #CreativeDirector of #TheAccidentalPrimeMinister. Who was present at the entire shoot of the film in England! Giving his creative inputs and must have taken the fee also for it. So for him to say 100% to #VirSanghvi’s comment is so messed up and full of double standards! Not that I agree with Mr. Sanghvi but we are all capable of doing bad or indifferent work. But we should OWN it. Not like #HansalMehta trying to earn some brownies from certain section of people. Common Hansal!! Grow up! I still have all our videos and pics of the shoot together!” 

After which, Hansal Mehta explained, “Of course I own my mistakes Mr Kher. And I can admit that I made a mistake. Can’t I sir? I did my job as professionally as I was allowed to. Can you deny that? But it doesn’t mean I have to keep defending the film or that it makes me lose objectivity about my error of judgement. About brownie points and hypocrisy I respectfully submit that you seem to be evaluating people by the same yardstick you evaluate yourself.”

The Accidental Prime Minister was released in theatres on 11, January 2019. The movie stars Anupam Kher, Akshaye Khanna, Suzanne Bernert, Aahana Kumra and Divya Seth. The film is streaming on Zee5.