Initially actor Paresh Rawal was to play Narendra Modi in biopic that he was also producing.Before that film was materialised, PM Narendra Modi was announced in parallel with Vivek Oberoi selected to play the lead role.

Filming began on 27 January 2019 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.Some vital scenes in the film chronicling Modi's early life and political journey was filmed in Uttarkashi district. Final schedule of filming was held at Mumbai.Vivek was injured during the shoot while doing a scene in Uttarkashi.

NSUI's Goa unit of the student wing of Congress Party, has written to Election Commission to ban the screening of the film claiming it violates the model code of conduct of elections.A plea filed at the Supreme Court of India to stop the release was rejected. The court said the constitutional body Election Commission is the appropriate authority to address the petitioner's concerns.On 9 April 2019, the film was certified by the CBFC alloting 'U' certificate with run time of 130 minutes.Election commission has stopped the release of the movie till the elections are over saying, "that any biopic 'which has the potential to disturb the level playing field during the elections should not be displayed in the electronic media'".The film is scheduled to have its release on 24 May 2019.

Producers Suresh Oberoi and Sandeep Singh released a first-look poster of the film on 7 January 2019, revealing actor Vivek Oberoi as the eponymous Modi.The official trailer of the film was released on 20 March 2019.Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC), set up by the Election Commission, has served a notice to the producers and T-series over an advertisement which was carried in two hindi newspapers announcing the movie trailer with an image of Narendra Modi.

The music of the film is composed by A. R. Rahman, Hitesh Modak and Shashi-Khushi while the lyrics are written by Javed Akhtar Prasoon Joshi, Sameer, Abhendra Upadhyay, Irshad Kamil, Parry G. and Lavraj. Two songs, one Suno Gaur Se Duniya Walon from Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt starrer a 1997 unfinished film Dus and the other Ishwar Allahfrom the film 1947: Earth, starring Aamir Khan, Nandita Das and lyrics by Javed Akhtar used in this film    Initially, Javed Akhtar and Sameer were unaware about their works from old films being reused in this film. They tweeted they have not written any songs for the film after finding their names on the film' credit row.The film's producer Sandip Ssingh clarified that the credits were given because their songs from previous movies were included.