The Commissioner-Movie Based on Lalit Modi’s life Goes Underway

Posted by admin on May 10th, 2010 | 0 comments

Lalit Modi’s biopic ‘The Commissioner’ did suffer a big jolt thanks to the IPL Scandal that start from Tweet wars between Lalit Modi and Shashi Tharoor, and ended with the Chairman of IPL being shown the door. But the producers of the movie, Percept Ltd who had decided to stall the film has now resumed working on it.

It is believed that Lalit Modi personally gave permission to incorporate all the chaotic happenings of his life that transpired in the last one month in the film. Sridhar Raghavan is working on the screenplay of the film and Shamin Desai has been finalized to direct the movie, The Commissioner.

Producer Shailendra Singh of Percept admits there have been big time changes in the project. He says, “Lalit Modi has indeed given us the nod to include all the new developments in his life and career. We’re going ahead full throttle with the project. Our writer Sridhar Raghavan(writer of Khakee and Apharan) is putting together this amazing saga. Lalit Modi’s story is not a ordinary story anyway.” He continues, “The reason why the title The Commissioner is chosen is because the word ‘mission’ is tucked in it. Lalit Modi was and is a man on a mission. There’s no way his story won’t be told.” It is believed from some sources that Irrfan Khan has been roped in to play Lalit Modi.