The Accidental Prime Minister

The Accidental Prime Minister is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language political film directed by Vijay Ratnakar Gutte and written by Mayank Tewari, based on the 2014 memoir of the same name by Sanjaya Baru. It was produced by the Bohra Bros under Rudra Production (UK), in association with Jayantilal Gada under the banner of Pen India Limited. It stars Anupam Kher as Dr. Manmohan Singh, the 13th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 under the United Progressive Alliance. The film was released on 11 January 2019. It earned a moderate opening of at the box office on its first day and as of January 24. Plot Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores the tenure of Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister of India, and the interference of the Congress Party in contradicting his decisions during his first tenure. The movie details how Singh fell victim to the Congress Party's dynastic approach. The movie highlights how Manmohan Singh was constantly ignored by the Congress to maintain turf for Rahul Gandhi, the son of Sonia Gandhi Cast Anupam Kher as Manmohan Singh Akshaye Khanna as Sanjaya Baru Suzanne Bernert as Sonia Gandhi Arjun Mathur as Rahul Gandhi Aahana Kumra as Priyanka Gandhi Anasuya Mazumder as Mamata Banerjee Vimal Verma as Lalu Prasad Yadav Avtar Sahni as L. K. Advani Anil Rastogi as Shivraj Patil Ajit Satbhai as P. V. Narasimha Rao Chitragupta Sinha as P. V. Ranga Rao Vipin Sharma as Ahmed Patel Divya Seth as Gursharan Kaur Shiv Kumar Subramaniam as P. Chidambaram Munish Bhardwaj as Kapil Sibal Ram Avtar as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sunil Kothari as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Atul Kumar as Jyotindra Nath Dixit Anish Kuruvilla as T. K. A. Nair Prakash Belawadi as M. K. Narayanan Vinod Khanna as Subbu Madan Joshi as Brajesh Mishra Pradeep Chakravarti as Pranab Mukherjee Yogesh Tripathy as Natwar Singh Bobby Parvez as Pulok Chatterji Anil Zankar as Sitaram Yechury Hansal Mehta as Naveen Patnaik Deepak Gheewala as N. Ram Naval Shukla as Yashwant Sinha Deepak Dadwal as Jaswant Singh Ashok Sagar Bhagat as Arjun Singh Ramesh Bhatkar as Prithviraj Chavan Subhash Tyagi as Mulayam Singh Yadav Manoj Tiger as Amar Singh Adarsh Gautam as Yousaf Raza Gilani Chembur Hari as A. K.