India's Bollywood film industry is set to stray into unfamiliar dark territory with a film on Adolf Hitler. According to the director's description, the movie appears to have more than a passing resemblance to the critically acclaimed 2004 German film “Downfall” starring Bruno Ganz. “The film will recapture the last days of Adolf Hitler, including his life in his Berlin bunker and Germany after his death in 1945,” Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, who is directing the movie, told the Mumbai Mirror this week. The film will focus on the German dictator's personality as well as his relationships with his lover and other close associates during the final days of the Nazi regime. Its makers say the title - “Dear Friend Hitler” - alludes to two letters written to him by India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. Hitler will be played by veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, who once played Gandhi on television, while former Miss India Neha Dhupia portrays Eva Braun, whom Hitler married hours before they committed suicide in April 1945. The film, budgeted at between two and three million dollars, will be shot in studio and on location in India's forests and mountains.
