PATNA: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday turned up at a cinema hall in Patna where he watched 'Phule', the recently released biopic based on the lives of 19th-century social reformers Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule.

The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, who began his day-long tour of Bihar with a students' interaction event in Darbhanga, reached the state capital on a helicopter and drove straight to a mall in the heart of the city which houses a multiplex.

Several persons from across the state, including Congress workers and social activists who insisted that they were "non-political", had turned up to watch the film with Gandhi, armed with special passes issued by the party.