MUMBAI: Debut director Rakesh Ranjan Kumar is directing a romantic biopic on Hitler titled Dear Friend Hitler.
The film is based on the Nazi ruler‘s relationship with his long-term mistress, Eva Braun.
While Anupam Kher plays Hitler, Neha Dhupia will essay the role of Eva Braun.
The film that is scheduled to release by this year-end tells the story of Hitler‘s final days in his Berlin bunker. It was there that he married Braun in a brief civil ceremony about 40 hours before he killed himself on 30 April,1945.
The first Bollywood film that will focus on Hitler who chose the swastika, an ancient Hindu symbol as his Nazi emblem, shows the dictator‘s love for India and how he indirectly contributed to Indian independence.
The film will also focus on the fate of the Free India Legion, an armed unit made up of Indian soldiers that was raised in 1941 and attached to the German Army.
The film‘s title alludes to two letters that Gandhi wrote to the dictator. Gandhi addressed Hitler as ‘Dear Friend‘ before requesting him not to go to war.
