Kissa Kursi Ka (1977)

Original title

किस्सा कुर्सी का

Directed by

Amrit Nahata

Genre

political film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 22m

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

It is a satire about a corrupt prime minister and her son who control the country. The film was made during a time of government censorship and was itself banned by the Indian government.

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What happens

Kissa Kursi Ka (transl. Tale of a Throne) is a 1977 Indian Hindi-language political satire film directed by Amrit Nahata, who was a member of Indian parliament and produced by Badri Prasad Joshi. The film was a satire on the politics of Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi and was banned by the Indian Government during the Emergency period and all prints were confiscated. Music of the film was composed by Jaidev Verma. I&B Minister VC Shukla (censor board was under his ministry) instructions were given to office bearers to be absent from censor board, but two Clarks of the office refused to hand over the master prints submitted in censor board and were punished by transfer, one of them named as Sh. Kanwar Chand. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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