Abhishek Bachchan is the likeliest candidate for the part of the man who carried India, kicking and dragging, into the 21st century. The Rajiv Gandhi bio-pic to be directed by Bhavna Talwar would now be made with the consent and approval of Mrs Sonia Gandhi.

The director of the award-winning film Dharm on religious secularism is now on to a film on a much larger religious theme. Bhavna along with Italian filmmaker Franco la Cecla have been assigned by the Vatican the task of making a film on the one-ness of different religious orders all over the world. Bhavna’s film in collaboration with la Cecla would be released in 2013 which has been declared The Year Of The Faith. In this connection Bhavna visited Vatican City on 16 July and was taken into restricted areas of the city where women are not allowed.