Siddharth Roy Kapur‘s Roy Kapur Movies (RKF), in collaboration with Trickitainment Media, is about to provide a biopic on Sukumar Sen, India’s first Chief Election Commissioner.
RKF’s newest undertaking follows the success of SonyLIV series “Rocket Boys,” a fictionalized model of the story of Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, who engineered India’s nuclear program and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, who established the Indian house program. It can chronicle the lifetime of Sen, the architect behind India’s first normal elections in 1951-52.
Sen, a mathematician and civil servant, was pivotal in transitioning India from a British colony to a democratic republic. Tasked with organizing the world’s largest democratic train, Sen managed an voters of 175 million individuals unfold throughout 565 princely kingdoms and newly fashioned states.
The logistics have been daunting. Some 224,000 polling cubicles have been constructed and geared up with two million metal poll containers; 16,500 clerks have been appointed on six-month contracts to kind and collate the electoral rolls by constituency; 56,000 presiding officers have been chosen to oversee the voting, aided by one other 280,000 helpers; and 224,000 policemen have been placed on responsibility to protect in opposition to violence and intimidation. In distant hill villages, bridges needed to be constructed to facilitate voter entry. For small islands within the Indian Ocean, naval vessels had for use to move electoral rolls to cubicles. Tribal individuals from some forest districts got here to the cubicles with their bows and arrows reaching as a lot as 70% turnout at one sales space within the jungle, whereas a neighboring sales space was visited solely by an elephant and two panthers.
Regardless of the enormity of the problem, Sen’s efforts resulted in 60% voter turnout, solidifying India’s democratic basis.
Introduced on the eve of India’s 18th normal elections counting day, the biopic goals to focus on the ambition and audacity of Sen’s work and remind audiences of the monumental effort behind the electoral course of that’s usually taken with no consideration in a rustic that’s the most populous on the earth and is the world’s largest democracy.
It’s not determined but whether or not the undertaking might be a movie or a sequence. The director and solid are being finalized.
Kapur mentioned: “We’re so honored to carry to life the unimaginable story of one in every of our nationwide heroes Sukumar Sen, who performed a vital position in shaping India’s democratic historical past. From the very system of figuring out political events by completely different symbols and colours to be able to fight illiteracy, to arising with the concept of indelible ink on fingernails to keep away from voter impersonation… so a lot of his improvements are in place even right now. His contribution to laying the structure for our democratic course of deserves to be celebrated and we stay up for bringing audiences in India and all over the world this thrilling story of our very first election and the superb man behind it.”
Sen’s grandson Sanjiv Sen added: “One in all India’s best successes as a nation has been its profitable democracy. The inspiration of all democracies is free and honest elections and the credit score for laying the bedrock for this vibrant electoral course of should go to Sukumar Sen, my grandfather and the primary CEC of unbiased India. I want the producers all of the success to painting the untold story of an unsung hero of this nice nation.”
Sen’s second grandson Debdatta Sen mentioned: “It is a laudable effort to make the individuals of our nation conscious of a exceptional individual and his achievements.”
