Little known Mumbai based filmmakers have won a two year long battle against the censor board to release their movie based on life and times of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

'Sonia' directed by T D Kumar and produced by Montage International and Das Entertainment in 2005 will see the light of the day later this year. The makers plan to release it around December nine, which is Gandhi's birthday.

The producers of 'Sonia' had moved Bombay High court against the censor board ruling asking them to seek personal approval of Sonia Gandhi before release of the film.

"We petitioned the high court against this censor board order saying that this was against the fundamental right of self expression. I have the freedom to make a creative and human film. I can be critical too, but not defamatory and misrepresent facts. Even the High Court ruled that there was no provision for personal approval under the cinematograph Act. The censor board has cleared the film with minor cuts," Kumar told reporters in Mumbai.

He said his film was a human and creative interpretation of an important political leader with a definite stamp in the present phase of Indian history.

"'Sonia' is not for propaganda nor is it a biographical film on Sonia Gandhi. It's a fiction...a dramatised piece of her life. It is researched and not of our imagination," he added. Kumar said the script of this film was written much before 'Rang De Basanti' which has a similar sub-plot of a film within a film.

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