Actor Manish Goel has been roped in to play late gangster Vikas Dubey in the movie Hanak. The film is an adaptation of the book Main Kanpur Wala, penned by Mridul Kapil.
Hanak will be helmed by Manish Vatssalya, who stated that he has no intention of glorifying the criminal.
Here’s the poster:
Manish said, “The society has to always be a mirror reflecting the mindset of its inhabitants. Unfortunately, we as the film fraternity have started glorifying the evil and have started affecting impressionable minds of the viewers taking them closer to vices. I felt it was my duty to present the crime in its most naked and gruesome form so that the viewers are repelled by it.”
For the uninitiated, Vikas Dubey was shot on (July 10 by police, who claim he was trying to flee after the car carrying him from Ujjain overturned on the outskirts of Kanpur. The police SUV met with an accident at Bhaunti in Kanpur district, overturning on an isolated stretch of the road which was slippery after the rains, police claimed.
They said the gangster snatched a pistol from one of the four policemen injured in the accident and was shot when he opened fire while trying to flee, an account of events being questioned by opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh.
The film produced by Mohaan Nadaar and Amit Gupta, Hanak’s filming will begin from November 27.
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