London: Filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, who had put on hold a biographical movie on Sonia Gandhi after her party slapped a legal notice on him, has said the Congress President told him she was "amused" by the project as she felt such movies were only made about "people who are dead."
Mundhra said he had a "confidential" meeting on the project with Sonia on October 10, 2006 at her residence 10, Janpath in New Delhi which went unreported.
The meeting was attended by Congress Party's spokesman Abhishek Singhvi who had in the same year in July issued a legal notice to Mundhra here saying that the biopic would not be allowed to go ahead as it was unauthorised.
"Mrs Sonia Gandhi took keen interest in listening to the storyline of my film Sonia. She was kind and patient, and did not raise the issue of legal proceedings at all.
"There were times when she looked amused as I narrated the most memorable moments of her life from a director's perspective, particularly, how she met Rajiv Gandhi," the UK-based director said.
"She, in fact, reminded me that there was a time when Rajiv Gandhi ji had to sell ice creams when they were studying together in Cambridge, in UK," Mundra said at a programme organised by India-EU Film Initiative at the Nehru Centre here over the weekend.
"However, Sonia ji said that she was a private person and could not come to terms that some one really wanted to make a film about her. She said she was amused. Usually, she said, such films are made about people who are dead," Mundhra said.
After receiving the notice, Mundhra said, the film was put on hold and that status has not changed since then.
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