Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to be Played by Indian Actors in Bollywood Film

Adolf Hitler would be turning in his grave – if he had one.

He is about to be played by an Indian actor in a Bollywood movie about his love life.

The film, called ‘Dear Friend Hitler’, will concentrate on the Fuhrer’s relationships in the last days of his life, particularly that with his mistress Eva Braun.

Cast: Indian Bollywood actors Anupam Kher and Neha Dhupia are to play the Fuhrer and Eva Braun in the new film

Miss Braun – who Hitler married in a brief civil ceremony just hours before they killed themselves on April 30, 1945 – will be played by Neha Dhupia, a former Miss India.

Anupam Kher, who once played Ghandi in a celebrated TV series screened on the sub-continent, said he is ‘really looking forward’ to playing Hitler.

‘I think he's one of the most interesting characters of our times,’ he said.

‘It will be a unique opportunity to play such a different role. Like Ben Kingsley played Gandhi, I will be playing Hitler.

‘I had played Gandhi on a TV show years back, but this would be the first historical role for a movie.

Secret relationship: Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler married just 40 hours before killing themselves

‘I have watched a couple of movies on Hitler and am also reading some books. The film is being made on a really large scale and it's important I try and read up as much as possible.

‘For me, he‘s just another character and I approach it like that. I have played so many negative roles in my lifetime, and all have just been different characters for me.’

Both main characters are planning to head to Germany for research before filming starts this summer.

Reports have suggested that the script includes a scene where Hitler and Miss Braun are in bed – although this has not been confirmed.

Their relationship was kept a secret from the German public until after the Second World War.

Rakesh Ranjan Kumar, director of Dear Friend Hitler, said about his film: ‘It will be a romance but not in the typical sense.’

He told The Times: ‘As a leader he was successful. I want to show why did he lose as a human being. What were the problems, what were the issues, what were his intentions?’

The movie will not feature musical routines.

Although the Nazi swastika was taken from an ancient Hindu symbol, Hitler looked down on non-whites as inferior. 

But he lavished praise on Indians during the war as he sought to woo them away from loyalty to their British masters.

The bodies of Hitler and Miss Braun were burned but the remains discovered by the Russians.

In an odyssey spanning many graves and years, they were finally disinterred one last time by Russian secret agents in 1970 from a military base in Magdeburg, burned and the remains scattered in a small river.

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