PM takes time off for movie

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 20. Taking a break from the hectic parleys of the past few days, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, today watched a movie on Veer Savarkar, one of the founding fathers of the Sangh Parivar. The film is an effort to rewrite the past to give Veer Savarkar his ``rightful place in history''.

It was truly an evening out for Mr. Vajpayee. But for a photographer and a cameraman - who, too, were given limited time to get their shots - television channels and scribes were kept at bay; allowing the Prime Minister an uninterrupted evening at the movie.

The Prime Minister's Cabinet colleagues, who joined him for the film, included Mr. L.K. Advani, Mr. Pramod Mahajan, Mr. Anantha Kumar, Mr. Vijay Goel and Ms. Maneka Gandhi, who, as Culture Minister, was host to the special screening of `Veer Savarkar: Saga of a Great Revolutionary and Freedom Fighter'. The film seeks to ``partly undo the injustice done to Veer Savarkar''.

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