London, Aug 21 (ANI): Friends of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have expressed a deep sense of disgust over a film that mocks her frail condition in recent years.
In the film, Lady Thatcher constantly hallucinates, under the impression that her husband, who died in 2003, is still alive.
It showed her having nightmares about the miners' strike and the Falklands War, while her late husband Denis appears as a ghost in a pink turban raging at her 'insufferable' selfishness.
Viewers invited to an early screening of the film, The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep as the former Prime Minister and Jim Broadbent as Sir Denis, were aghast at the way that it portrayed her as 'granny going crazy'.
Anglo-French film-makers Pathe, who organized the event, said the story is about 'power and the price that is paid for power' and claims her health is 'treated with sensitivity'.
It concedes the film is fiction, but says it is 'fair and accurate,' the Daily Mail reports.
Conservative MP Conor Burns, one of her closest confidants, however, said that 'any portrayal of Margaret Thatcher that does not show her as one of the titans of British politics in the 20th Century will be a travesty.'
'The idea that Denis would ever have been cruel to her is twisted and untrue. They were devoted," Burns said.
The film overall depicts a very different view of their marriage, and Thatcher's political achievements, seen through the perspective of the decade that followed her downfall in 1990. (ANI)
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