The actor was to play the late prime minister in a Web series to be produced by Vidya's husband Siddharth Roy Kapur.
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There are rumours of the film being remade in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi.
As returns from fiction fall, broadcasters are experimenting with high-cost programming and new genres to grab more eyeballs. But can production houses rise to the challenge?