Bal Thackeray and The Adam Sutler

V for vendetta is one of my all time favourite movie and I remember almost every scene in the movie. The main antagonist in the movie, The High Chancellor Adam Sutler, played by John Hurt with a typical french beard, was characterized as a deeply religious man, spouting hatred and "Fear" was his main weapon in his rise to power...

Recently I was reading about Bal Thackeray and came across one of the picture of him with a french beard and only one face came to my mind immediately...

that of Adam Sutler...

I know that the movie is loosely based on a comic... I was just wondering if there are more similarities between Adam Sutler and Bal Thackeray other than the french beard...

Great movie though...