NEW DELHI: Asian-American filmmaker Krishna Shah is set to make a biopic on Indira Gandhi and has roped in Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit to play the role of India’s first and only woman prime minister.

Titled Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story the film was announced on the late prime minister’s 92nd birth anniversary on November 19. The pre-production of the film has already been done. It will go on floors in mid-2010 and be shot in India, Britain, US and Russia.

“I have followed Indira Gandhi’s life through media, books and critics. It’s such an exciting and dramatic story. I want the future generation to know her story. A whole new generation has grown and matured since her assassination and through this film I hope to connect people with their history and legacy,” Shah said in a press release.

Apart from Madhuri, Bollywood actors Dharmendra, Abhay Deol and Nana Patekar have been approached to play Motilal Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi and Jayaprakash Narayan respectively. Hollywood star Tom Hanks is likely to be a part of the film as former US president Lyndon Baines Johnson.