00:00Isri Narendra Modi ko
00:02Agami Lok Sabha Chunao ke liye
00:05Prime Ministerial Candidate Ke Root me project kiya jaya
00:08Prime Minister Narendra Modi becomes the country's
00:10Longest Continuously Serving Elected Premier
00:13So Narendra Modi has surpassed Jawaharlal Nehru
00:16And become the Longest Continuously Serving Prime Minister
00:18But this video is not about today
00:22The year was 1950
00:23A Hindi film called Samadhi had just released
00:26Today in 2026 Dharandar is what many think of
00:28When they talk about Indian spy films
00:30But for many cinema historians, Samadhi holds its distinction
00:32For being India's first spy film
00:34The same year our protagonist was born
00:36It's not hard to imagine Kadambudam Badai Chah from the film
00:39Playing on the radio somewhere when Hirabhin Modi
00:41Gave birth to the third
00:42Of her six children on 17th September
00:44That year
00:45Welcome to the world, future Prime Minister
00:48Narendra's dad, Damodar Das Mulchand Modi
00:50Was an edible oil seller
00:52As the family grew, he began selling tea
00:54At the train station for a little extra income
00:56Narendra was an average student
00:58But on stage exceptional
01:00In the biography, The Namo Story, A Political Life
01:02Author journalist Gingshuk Nag mentions
01:04Narendra finding solace in extracurricular pursuits
01:07Like drama and debate
01:08In 1965, he starred in Jogidas Khuman
01:11A play depicting an outlaw's transformation into a saint
01:15He used to play the lead role
01:17But because he had a slight frame apparently
01:19Not quite the 56 inch persona he is known for now
01:21He ended up playing a supporting role
01:23He then portrayed a soldier in Haryali No Hatiyaro
01:26A play infused with patriotic zeal
01:29About the backdrop of Chinese aggression
01:31He even faced bullying from the bigger boys in school
01:34But he was, in the words of the author, frank and fearless
01:36Narendra stood up for the election of class representative as well
01:39Many decades later, he visited that same school as Prime Minister
01:46Then there is the RSS
01:48Narendra was just 8 when he found the RSS at a local shakha
01:51The man who inducted him, Lakshman Rao Inamdar
01:53Became the mentor of his life
01:55What happened in between is a story India knows well
01:57And one we will tell another day
01:59What matters today is this
02:01When Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister on the 26th of May 2014
02:04He had contested his first election only in 2002
02:07He has not lost one since 2014, 2019, 2024
02:11And on the 10th of June this year
02:13He completed 4,399 consecutive days in office
02:17Surpassing Nehru's 4,398 days as India's elected Prime Minister
02:21Now that tea stall in Vardhanagar still stands preserved behind glass
02:25The trains still pass
02:27History they say is written by the victors
02:29I am Anisha Dikari
02:29Thank you for watching The Culture Project on More
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