New Delhi Times (1986)

Original title

न्यू देहली टाइम्स

Directed by

Romesh Sharma

Genre

political film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 03m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newspaper editor uncovers a web of corruption linking politics and the media. He risks his career to expose the truth.

tenseseriousgrittycerebralbleakslow-burnthought-provokingsuspenseful

What happens

New Delhi Times is 1986 Hindi-language political thriller film directed by Ramesh Sharma and written by Gulzar, starring Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in lead roles. The film is about a newspaper editor who exposes the politics-media corruption nexus. The political drama film with a controversial storyline about political corruption and media, ran into trouble when film distributors and television refused to run the film, though later it went on to win three National Film Awards. It remains one of few Bollywood films to tackle the issue of corruption in media, joining Kundan Shah's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), Main Azaad Hoon (1989) and Rann (2010) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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