Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar is set to direct a film on Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, titled Syama — The Missing Chapter. Mookerjee was an Indian academic, politician, and the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the ideological predecessor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Prior to Kangana, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar used social media to express his views on the project.