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In the first on-screen appearance with her husband since getting married, Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan takes the lead as a powerful executive in Sarkar Raj (Absolute Ruler).
The film that will also star her father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan, and her husband, Abhishek Bachchan, will hit the screens on June 6, the film's director said at a press conference Monday.
Sarkar Raj is loosely based on the controversy around an Enron power plant built in India's western state of Maharashtra a decade ago.
Director Ram Gopal Varma however defended the movie as original.
It "has no reference point and was a completely original script," Varma said, according to the Press Trust of India.
Yet the promos of Sarkar Raj show a striking similarity between Rai-Bachchan's role and that of Rebecca Mark, former CEO of Houston-based utilities giant Enron, who pushed the power plant project.
Enron was mired in a political storm in the mid-1990s over the building of a 2.9 billion dollar private power plant, India's largest at the time.
Majority share owner Enron closed the plant in 2001 after its lone client, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, fell behind on payments.
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