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Biopics are becoming a popular genre in Indian cinema.

Music biopics have long been a popular genre but what distinguishes this "new wave" is the artist's involvement and music catalog to create concert-like scenes, said Scott Roxborough, European bureau chief for The Hollywood Reporter.

"He had launched posters of my successful biopics - Mary Kom and Sarabjeet.

Actor Darshan Kumaar, who plays a journalist in PM Narendra Modi, says if the film industry can make biopics on sports stars, then why not on politicians as well.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) recently warned that biopics of candidates shown during the election campaign period will be prosecuted for violation of election laws.

Another day, another biopic. Bollywood's current trending genre is biopics which are hitting the screens right, left and centre.

Unlike many other biopics made so far, this one will have Sunny herself playing out her life on the screen instead of an actor essaying the subject.

In the past year alone, producers and studios have announced biopics of India's only individual Olympic gold medal winner, the captain of the Indian women's cricket team, two top badminton players, their coach, and a film based on the cricket team's World Cup victory in 1983.

Mumbai: Filmmakers usually show the rags to riches story in biopics of sports personalities, but music maestro A R Rahman says he fails to understand why musicians are often depicted as losers on the big screen.

As of press time, Spears has yet to give any comments or reactions to the unofficial biopic. Lifetime, on the other hand, is no stranger to such ridicule and controversies as their previous biopics of Aaliyah and Whitney Houston were also slammed.

You realise after a point the film, like most Bollywood biopics, was only meant to use a real- life hero to create an inordinately long formula tale.