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Poster of Merey Pyarey Prime Minister unveiled

Trend of social-drama films is gaining popularity in Bollywood. After Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar's Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, another Hindi film revolving around the same subject is set to arrive in cinemas soon.

On the World Toilet Day 2017, award-winning Indian filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra rolled out the first poster of his upcoming film titled Merey Pyarey Prime Minister.


The director took to micro-blogging site Twitter to tweet the poster of the movie. The first poster of the film features a young boy pointing his finger towards a sketch of a toilet on a wall. Standing beside him is his mother.

Inspired by a true story, the film revolves around 4 slum kids of Mumbai. In the film, one of the kids wants to make a toilet for his single mother who has to defecate in the open like other women in the slum. He takes the responsibility to build a toilet and makes an appeal to the Prime Minister. He then travels all the way to the national capital to convey his message.

Merey Pyarey Prime Minister features National Award winning Marathi film actress Anjali Patil as the lead.

The film has been shot across real locations of the slums of Ghatkopar followed by Powai in Mumbai.

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