NARENDRA MODI JI IS A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE AND VISION

I remember the first meeting I had with Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji was in the year 2011. It was a very brief meeting, maybe just 30 seconds, but it is etched forever in my memory. I was already a fan of Modi ji and the meeting further cemented that bond. I have still kept a photo of him standing with me. It was a marriage event at Delhi’s Ashoka hotel. He invited me to Ahmedabad and I assured him I would pay a visit. The next meeting was in 2013. It was a Sunday and an MP, who was a friend of mine, took an appointment for me from Modi ji, who was then the CM of Gujarat. The meeting was to last 10-15 minutes but eventually it ended after 45 minutes. He invited me to his residence, and we sat there gossiping and discussing a lot of things. Modi ji is an intent listener. He asked me about the

- Madhur Bhandarkar Film Director

struggles and challenges I had faced in my field and listened to everything very attentively, trying to understand the functioning of my profession. He gave his inputs too, which inspired and motivated me a lot. Modi ji has this ability of taking along everyone together. In the recently concluded WAVE Summit in Mumbai, we saw cinema representatives from the South, from Maharashtra, from Bengal, all participating and inter-