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Poster of Kissa Kursi Ka In a longish feature for Film Comment (May-June 1980), American journalist Elliott Stein wrote about the forays made by Indian film personalities into politics. “In no country are cinema and politics more closely intertwined,” he noted. Some of the events, he noted while covering Filmotsav ’80, a film festival held in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), were M.G.R becoming the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in 1977, Dilip Kumar being appointed the sheriff of Bombay (now Mumbai), and the successful launch and quick folding up of a new National Party by Dev Anand. “One case of Indian politics-cum-film received world attention because it involved Sanjay Gandhi,” wrote Stein. “In 1977, Amrit Nahata, the producer of Kissa Kursi Ka brought a suit against Mrs Gandhi’s son, claiming that he had stolen and destroyed all of the prints of the film, which caricatured his mother’s regime.”
In the eye of the storm What’s common to the 10 films featured here? They have all courted pre-release controversy and been banned, stayed or delayed Priyanka Roy | | Published 06.02.21, 10:45 PM
Tandav, an Amazon Prime Video series that takes a look at students’ angst, political power play, dynastic politics, farmers’ unrest, systematic intimidation of the minority populace in what is a zeitgeist of the times we live in, is under a cloud, forcing its makers to go on the backfoot. We take a look at 10 Hindi films that were mired in controversy, either being stayed, banned or delayed, before seeing the light of day in theatres.