NEW DELHI: As his latest film ‘Indu Sarkar’, set in the backdrop of emergency period in 1975-1977, faces controversy, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar says that he had always wanted to make a period film.
Madhur, who was in the capital last evening along with the lead actress Kirti Kulhari, veteran singer composer Bappi Lahiri and Miss India Tourism Ishika Taneja to launch the film’s new song “Dilli ki Raat”, said,”I wanted to make a period film and felt that it would be a very nice thing to make a film on the backdrop of emergency and what exactly happened during those times.
“The Page 3 and Fashion filmmaker said it is a very beautiful subject. “Its emotional and not a political film. But the nature of the backdrop is political,” he said. When asked what made him choose such a subject, the filmmaker said,”nobody has made a film on emergency’s backdrop. People are not aware of emergency and I feel today’s generation and youth needs to know exactly what happened behind the emergency and the life over there. What events exactly had happened. I like making films that are hard hitting and realistic.
On the controversy generated by the film with several sections raising objections to its content, Madhur said, “there are many documentaries made on emergency, books are also written on that period, but no objections have been ever made on those people. So why not a film. The freedom of expression that is for the documentary maker or the book writer, why is that freedom not available for a filmmaker. (AGENCIES)
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