Mumbai:
A documentary on Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who left bureaucracy to become a
social activist and then plunged into the rough-and-tumble of
politics, will hit theatres on November 17.
Global media giant Vice has acquired the biographical
film, "An Insignificant Man", for a world-wide release.
Vice has announced it will now be partnering with
producer Anand Gandhi's Memesys Lab in releasing the film
widely, in India and internationally, on November 17, a press
release issued here said.
Directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vina Shukla, "An
Insignificant Man" is a non-fiction political thriller that
chronicles the rise of Kejriwal from a social activist to a
politician, it said.
The film had been in news after it was stalled by ex-
Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, who had asked the
filmmakers to get permissions from Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and other politicians before its release.
"I first saw the 'An Insignificant Man' at TIFF in
2016 and I came away thinking it was the best doc
(documentary) about street-level politics since Marshall
Curry's Street Fight," said Jason Mojica, Executive Producer,
Vice Documentary Films, in a statement here.
"We are bringing 'An Insignificant Man' to our
audience around the world, because we think it s a highly
relevant film for anyone who sees problems in their own
political systems and has the impulse to get personally
involved in trying to change things," Mojica said.
The film will be shown in over 22 countries in
theatres, on television and digitally.
"For the first time ever in the history of Indian
cinema, a film will show exactly what goes on behind closed
doors of a political party," Anand Gandhi of Memesys Lab
said.
The 95 minutes long film has been distilled from 400
hours of real behind-the-scenes footage shot through a year.
It gives a sneak peak into the heated arguments,
inside jokes, campaign strategies and the true events and
ideologies that inform the rhetoric, as we follow the birth of
the newest political party in India - the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP), said the press release.
