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Rahul Bose takes Poorna to new heights

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 31 March 2017

Rahul Bose has stepped into director’s shoe for Poorna, an inspiring film that marks the journey of 13-year-old Poorna Malavath who created history by becoming the youngest girl to scale Mount Everest on May 25, 2014. Poorna is the biopic of a teenager Poorna Malavath, who hails from Telangana and is the youngest girl to climb world’s greatest Mt Everest. A special screening was hosted for the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and he was thoroughly moved by the biopic.