After success of Aarakshan, Prakash Jha is ready scripting down his next movie Satyagraha based on Anna Hazare movement. Reportedly Amitabh Bachchan will play ‘Anna’.
Prakash Jha confirms the news saying, “I am at the moment working on the script of Satyagraha. It is about peaceful protest, though not on a pan India level. The cast is yet to be finalised, but Bachchan saab will be in the film.”
However Prakash Jha has different views in Anna Haraze movement and method and has strong objection on Anna’s ideology. Jha told, “The upsurge of mass protest against corruption that Anna Hazare has generated is indeed unprecedented and remarkable. However, what bothers me is that only one opinion is prevailing in this movement towards eradicating corruption, and that could damage the whole noble purpose of the protest. It is the Lok Pal bill the way Anna Hazare saab wills it to be, or not at all. There has to be a less hardline approach to a matter as deep-rooted as corruption. Also, the fight against corruption should be more focused and specific in its motivation. For instance, why not start by simply campaigning against anyone giving or taking a bribe?”
Hope the film does not face political hit and ban.
