Bollywood's Mani Shankar to put Modi in holographic avatar

Filmmaker Mani Shankar, of 16 December and Rudraksh fame, is getting ready to make Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi omnipresent by using a special technology called Holographic Projection. By dint of this technology, Modi will “be seen physically present simultaneously in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Baroda giving identical election speeches”, a Times of India story reported.[caption id=“attachment_531935” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. PTI[/caption] This technology is mostly seen in hi-tech sci-fi films and Mani Shankar’s movies are examples. The Times of India report said that the filmmaker inked a Rs 157 crore project with the NDA for Modi’s computer-controlled incarnation at multiple locations simultaneously. “Holographic Projection is like pure magic. A live human being appears out of the blue, walks, talks, asks and answers questions, and on an invisible cue, disappears into nowhere.Holographic Projection is not a movie special effect. It is ’live’"— the Times of India piece quoted Mani Shankar’s friend as saying.