Arun Gawli to come out on parole to promote Arjun Rampal's fim Daddy?

For the last five years, gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli has been serving life sentence for the 2008 murder of a Shiv Sena corporator, in the Nagpur Central Jail.  

But if all goes according to plan, then ‘Daddy’, as he’s fondly called by everyone, will most likely be out on parole around the release of the film based on his life — Ashim Ahluwalia’s Daddy which comes out on September 8. And as his daughter Geeta Gawli tells us, “It’s his movie and he should be there. It’s called Daddy, after all.”

Hope for the best

Geeta had requested the filmmakers to push the date of the film’s release from July 21 to September 8, so that her father would be present to see the biopic made on his life. “We had asked them long ago (to shift the release date) and they agreed. We thought we will try and get dad out on parole around that time,” she says. And even though she says nothing is certain, they can just hope for the best. She has also heard that Arjun Rampal, who is playing Gawli in the film, will be holding a special screening of the film for her dad. “I have heard, but I don’t know when it will be,” she adds.

Many points of view

As for the movie itself, Geeta has seen it in bits and parts while it was being shot. “It’s from several points of view. I feel they have made a good film,” she says. Will her father appreciate the film? “I hope so!” she signs off.