Director Nitin Kakkar of Filmistaan fame has said his next directorial venture, Mitron, has nothing to do with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  

The word Mitron became popular after Modi used it at public addresses. “Our film is about friendship and is set in Gujarat, so the costumes, sets, dialogues are led by the backdrop, similarly friends in Gujarati are called mitra or mitron, so the title.” Nitin told PTI. 

“It has nothing to do with Narendra Modi, we completely love and respect the chair he holds and have no intention to get cheap publicity whatsoever. He does use it (word) often but then he is from Gujarat too.”

The film is a remake of the Telugu Pelli Choopulu. The national award-winning director said: “When you pick up something that is already made, it becomes a fresh script again as you set it in a different world. In a way to do this film again in different language, set up was challenging and difficult but in a positive exciting.”