Director Ajay Kanchan’s Chandu scrapped

Ajay Kanchan, the director of the film entitledChandu, has now dropped the idea to make the biography of JNU leader and activist Chandrashekhar Prasad who was shot dead (1997) when he was addressing agathering at Siwan in Bihar.

The director of the film said that he has faceddifficultyin collecting information fromJNU studentsaboutPrasad. Kanchan quoted, "This was not a commercial venture for us. We were attempting a biopic on a contemporary figure and to know the facts about his life we had to rely on his friends and relatives. But unless we arrived at a consensus, we couldn't have made this film". Mahesh Bhatt, who was the key planner of the film, said he will try and talk to the JNU students to get a better picture of Prasad’s life.

ActorImran Zahid was scheduled to play the role of Prasad in the film. Imran commented, "It was a dream to make my debut with this film, but Mr Bhatt has been giving me many opportunities, be it in theatre or films, so I grew as an actor. We will make a film inspired by Prasad's life now, since so much research has been done already".