(News) Gulabi Gang Leader Sampat Pal opposes Movie based on her life

Gulabi Gang leader Sampat Pal is in a belligerent mood.

Ever since the 65-year-old activist came to know that a film based on her life is being made with actress Madhuri Dixit playing her role, she has been hopping mad and now plans to seek an injunction from court against the film.

“Neither the film’s producer (Anubhav Sinha) nor Madhuri Dixit have contacted me or sought my permission to make a film on my life. I am going to file a case against Madhuri Dixit and seek a ban on the film,” she said on phone from Banda.

A few years ago, another film producer had planned to make a film on the life of Sampat Pal who is the founder president of the Gulabi Gang, a group of women vigilantes all dressed in pink saris that operates in the Bundelkhand region.

“He shelved the movie when I threatened him with legal action,” she said.

The proposed film, being produced by Anubhav Sinha on Sampat Pal’s life, is titled “Gulab Gang” and though the filmmaker admits that it is inspired by “something that happened in Uttar Pradesh”.

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Courtesy: asianage.com