{"id":2997,"date":"2016-06-14T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2016-06-14T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:14:51","slug":"biopic-on-dr-babasaheb-ambedkar-in-tamil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"Biopic on Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in Tamil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2998 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"ambedkar\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar-768x430.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar-284x158.jpeg 284w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar-642x362.jpeg 642w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar-128x72.jpeg 128w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ambedkar.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A biopic on the life of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is being made in Tamil titled Baba Saheb with director Ajay Kumar helming it. Apparently, he has also taken the onus of producing the movie as well.\u00a0 Ajay tells us, \u201cEvery alternate movie in K\u2019town is on rowdies and gangsters. I wanted to deviate from this commercial cocktail and try out my hand in filming a biopic of a national leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He asserts, \u201cThe film will focus on the lifetime of the social reformer and will not be projecting him as the caste leader.\u201d Talking about how he zeroed in on Raja Ganapathy for the titular role, he says, \u201cIt was not an easy task. I auditioned nearly 10,000 candidates, and finally my cinematographer Mohan introduced Raja Ganapathy who had worked in a film called Aaivu Koodam. I felt he had an uncanny resemblance to Dr Ambedkar and with few makeup techniques, we could bring the former alive on screen.\u201d\u00a0 The team is also looking out for faces to play poet Bharathi, EVR Periyar and other leaders, he adds.\u00a0 After a gap, ace composer Deva has been roped in for music.<\/p>\n<p>One may recall that M\u2019town superstar Mammmooty portrayed Dr Ambedkar in the English film Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar and even won a national award for Best Actor, besides the movie winning Best Feature Film in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A biopic on the life of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar is being made in Tamil titled Baba Saheb with director Ajay Kumar helming it. Apparently, he has also taken the onus of producing the movie as well.\u00a0 Ajay tells us, \u201cEvery alternate movie in K\u2019town is on rowdies and gangsters. I wanted to deviate from this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinemas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}