Vickey Lalwani (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 30, 2013)

Jackky Bhagnani has just returned from Indore after a long schedule of Afzal Ahmad’s Youngistaan. While the young actor has been trying to keep his role in the film a closely guarded secret, the cat is finally out of the bag. Mirror can not only reveal Jackky’s part in the film, but also has details about two other important characters.

By the looks of it, Jackky's character is modelled on the Vice President of the Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi. In several scenes the actor is seen in a kurta-pyjama and Nehru jacket which seem to have come out of the politician's wardrobe. He even sports glasses similar to the ones Rahul wears and also his stubble.

Wait, there's more. Seems Jackky's character also has shades of Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi's seventh Chief Minister and declines to stay in the residence provided the government. The Aam Aadmi Party leader, who was sworn in as the CM on Saturday, has also refused to move into the official bungalow. Copy or coincidence? Ahmad, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from a Delhi college retorts, “Neither, the scene was shot three months ago!”

 Jackky who insists that he is very clued into the country's politics however admits of meeting a few politicians before the film went on floors. Prod him on who they were and he refuses to divulge names. All he will say is, "My role has the positive nuances of many of our netas. Perhaps the attire, along with the stubble, is making people think that it is Rahul Gandhi.”

 Pranjal Khandhdiya, executive producer of MSM Motion Pictures, the production house, which is collaborating with Vashu’s Puja Entertainment on the project, adds, “Jackyy plays a politician who thinks ahead of his time, like Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi, Arvind Kejriwal and Akhilesh Yadav.” Prakash Belawadi, who was last seen in Shoojit Sircar's Madras Café, is playing the Union Finance Minister and according to a source close to the film "wears glasses like P Chidambaram".

 Farooq Shaikh, who passed away on Saturday, canned all his scenes in Indore before flying to Dubai on a family vacation. His charcter bears an uncanny resembalnce to Ahmed Patel, Political Secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi. “The film is in sync sound so we will retain Farooque’s voice. Thank God, we won’t need a dubbing artiste, ” says Ahmad.