Alfred Hitchcock once said, of films, that drama is life with the dull bits cut out. He may have been referring to biopics, a genre hugely popular in the West (recently, The Iron Lady, J Edgar), but somehow not very successful in India.
Even if one does make a film based on an actual person's life, then there are a few things that become taboo - the person can never be portrayed as too flawed, for one, and if he is a national hero, then he must emerge almost godlike in the end. Legends become glorified lies with the passing of time, and movies on them become tedious and ....