
Few world leaders have achieved so much with so little power. Despite being unloved by his people, mistrusted by his party, a minority in Parliament and ruling under the shadow of 10 Janpath, Rao reinvented India, at home and abroad. Narasimha Rao became the unlikely prime minister of India in 1991, he inherited economic crisis, violent insurgencies and a nation adrift. The cast of the show is yet to be announced.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp.When P.V. Sameer Nair - CEO, Applause Entertainment, said the collaboration builds on their vision of creating "content without borders, and beyond languages, enabling us to tell more clutter breaking stories" in future. What all happened during those days, we are going to bring out those stories with the series," Aravind said. "All the economic reforms we enjoy today were started by him in 1991.

Producer Allu Aravind, Promoter, aha and Managing Director Geetha Arts, said the team is excited to bring the story of Rao to the screen.

Under their partnership, aha Studio and Applause Entertainment will produce four premium bilingual pan-Indian series, with their first offering being "Half Lion". I hope we will have a small part in telling his story, so that he gets his due and generations remember him," he said. But the time has come, when people have started remembering him, and started talking about him. "Not only history, his own party, his own people have been unjust and cruel to him. The director said it's unfortunate that Rao was never given his due, but the series will put his work into the spotlight.

With the single aim to take the country forward," Jha added.

The filmmaker said Rao's greatness was that he never took any credit for the economic reforms he brought and rather gave credit to the then Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, former Prime Ministers Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi and the Indian National Congress (INC).
