WENN says that the always stunning Dame Helen Mirren will be walking Queen Elizabeth’s corgis yet again, but this time just as support in Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story. She played the Queen and received an Oscar for the role in 2006’s The Queen. Mother will be a biopic chronicling Indira Gandhi’s career as the Indian (dots not feathers) Prime Minister up until her assassination in 1984.

A star studded cast will surround director Krishna Shah, who must have performed some sort of magical enchantment on the producers who hired him because his resume is short and unused since 1985. Other big guns being courted to fill some important 1980’s political shoes are Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones to play Lyndon B. Johnson and Tricky Dick Nixon respectively, while the titular role will go to Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit.

Shah has been perfecting the script for nearly 20 years so with that sort of polish and the cast he has behind him I can’t imagine the impact this movie will have. Shah says, “It took me years to find a way into her story, but I found it with her role as a mother - both to her family and to a nation with its teeming millions. Indira was India." Here’s hoping the out of practice director still knows what he’s doing.