Bollywood actor Anupam will be seen playing the role of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Film ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’, which is based on a book by Sanjaya Baru, a former media advisor to Manmohan Singh. Akshaye features as Baru and Divya Seth Shah plays Manmohan Singh’s wife Gursharan Kaur in the movie.

Ever since the trailer launched, the film has been facing a backlash from the opposition Congress party around the controversies it might evoke. Some are claiming that it’s showing Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in a wrong light.

But the actor feels the facts have not been changed. “We can’t change the facts,” said veteran actor Anupam Kher, who plays the role of Dr. Manmohan Singh in the upcoming biopic ‘The Accidental Prime Minister.’

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor loved the trailer of Anupam Kher-Akshaye Khanna starrer “The Accidental Prime Minister”, and says the film seems to be “political yet interesting”.

“What a wonderful trailer of a film promising to be political yet interesting. Anupam Kher, your passion for your craft is what I hope you teach at your film school. And how smashing does our Akshaye Khanna look! Congratulations beforehand,” Rishi posted on Twitter on Friday.

However, Kher, in an exclusive interview, stated that the film is based on facts as chronicled in a book by Sanjaya Baru Manmohan Singh’s media advisor between 2004 and 2008.

“If we make a film on the issue of Jallianwala Bagh or The Holocaust or any historic incident, we can’t change the history or the facts. That’s what we have done here,” the 63-year-old said.

“The book is written by a man who was very close to the prime minister at that time. This book was either ignored or people moved on after its release. So why this hue and cry now?” he questioned.