Anand Kumar May Create a Film or Web Series on the Life of the Conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar

Anand Kumar, the filmmaker met ASP Deepak Sharma at Tihar jail for research on Sukesh Chandrasekhar, a notorious conman for a project he is working on.

Written by: Arjita Gupta

Edited by: Krutarth Ghosalkar

Last Updated: 2023-03-17 07:42:12

Filmmaker Anand Kumar confirmed that he is working on a project based on the life of Sukesh Chandrasekhar, a conman. Kumar has recently met ASP Deepak Sharma, Tihar Jail, and said that the meeting was the first and research is underway. The project is in its initial stages and the progress will depend on the information and material they can gather. Only after then, Anand will be able to decide if he will be creating a web series or a movie about the conman.

A team of writers will be in Delhi in the following month, as per Anand Kumar, and connect with the investigating team. Due to money laundering and cheating cases, Sukesh Chandrasekhar was in Tihar jail. As the project will be based on Sukesh Chandrasekhar, the director of Zila Ghaziabad (2013) said, it will be mainly based on his personal life, money laundering, and cheating cases.

But the filmmaker does not wish to look at this project as a biopic. The film will explore the link-ups Sukesh had with Bollywood actresses such as Nora Fatehi and Jacqueline Fernandes. Anand says that a biopic is for great minds and people and not a conman, and he does not want Sukesh to be immortalized this way. Anand also shared about the intriguing factor that encouraged him to pursue the story.

He said that Sukesh’s style of conning people is different from others as he knows 10-12 languages, and probably even more. He wants to understand how Sukesh could pull such frauds by creating his networks. He intends the film to show how he planned and pulled scams with his mastermind for almost a year and only then executed them. Also, Kumar feels that such personalities are yet to be explored in Indian cinema. He said that research is ongoing for the last six months.

When asked if he was considering talking to the conman and meeting him up for his research, Kumar said that he has not thought about it. But in case Sukesh is not prepared to share his story, he can always reach out to those who were conned by him. ASP Deepak Sharma said that he met with Anand recently, who is an old friend.

And Anand spoke to him about his interest in making the film. Deepak feels that the project is a great idea and Anand ji wishes to know how Sukesh behaves, looks, dressed up, likes to do, and other essentials. Anand has told Deepak that his writers are researching and will be in Delhi and he shall meet them on it.