Vivek Oberoi to play Lalit Modi?
The actor will reportedly play a character modeled on him in a web-series.
Actor Vivek Oberoi will play a character based on Lalit Modi, the first Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), in a 12-part web series. This web original will be spearheaded by Karan Anshuman, the debutant director of Bangistaan. The series is titled Power Play, will be made with a budget amounting to a figure of 75 crore, and it will be streamed on Amazon Prime. Power Play also features Richa Chadha who will play an actress who is dating a cricketer played by Angad Bedi and who also owns an IPL franchise.
The shooting took off last week in Mumbai and will end in November. Power Play which is based on the functioning of the IPL, Vivek essays a character which is inpsired by the Lalit Modi, under his reign it was alleged that Congress minister Shashi Tharoor held indirect free equity in the Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise. As a result it led to Tharoor's resignation. Immediately after the 2010 IPL concluded, Modi was suspended from the BCCI over misconduct, indiscipline and financial irregularities.
In 2013, an inquiry followed, finding Modi guilty of the above charges, resulting in a lifetime. Though Modi claimed innocence, shortly before the Enforcement Directorate launched an investigation against him, Modi moved to London.