Software tycoon NR Narayana Murthy is set to showcase a completely different side to his personality soon, reports the Mumbai newspaper DNA.
The hot shot entrepreneur has faced the camera and is making his debut in movies in a film titled India By Song in which he plays himself.
The film will also feature the likes of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and late Raj Kapoor in song and dance sequences that are emblematic to the times and decades that India has seen gone by.
Woven around a long road journey across the country, India by Song brings together history, colourful Bollywood song clips, live testimonies and beautiful images of today's India to deliver a gripping work of cinema.
The film fuses history and cinema seamlessly as we see dancing and singing actresses, thinkers, domestic maids, farmers and cricketers all rolled into it. Narayana Murthy is featured as the man who engineered the software revolution in India.
Other dignitaries in the video are Romila Thapar, one of India's most respected historians and Bishan Singh Bedi, the former captain of the Indian cricket team. Choreographer Saroj Khan has also spoken on the changing dance scene post Michael Jackson's arrival.
The film has eight Bollywood numbers featuring videos of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Kajraare, Crazy Kiya Re), Raj Kapoor (Awaara Hoon) and Madhuri Dixit (Choli Ke Peeche) among others.
Director Vijay Singh says, “Narayana Murthy and everybody else are playing themselves in the movie. They appear in interviews but this is not a documentary. I have used each one of them to speak on one topic of importance to India. So, they all have a very important role to play. Narayana speaks on how Indians can thrive in chaos.”
