Manish Gupta has cast well known character actor Manmauji to play social activist Anna Hazare on the big screen. Known foru00a0his comic roles in films like Azaad, Naseeb, Gautam Govinda, Paap Ki Duniya, Aankhen, Phir Hera Pheri to name some, the filmmaker found the actor’s looks strikingly similar to the Gandhian.u00a0

Manish says, “I wanted the film to be very authentic. So I auditioned about 30 to 40 actors for the part of Prasanna Sathe, popularly known as Anna Sathe in my film. And I found that Manmauji looked exactly like Anna Hazare, in terms of physical appearance.”