Sudhir Mishra opens up on using “Emergency”as a backdrop in film ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’
Sudhir Mishra opens up on using “Emergency”as a backdrop in film ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’
Sudhir Mishra opened up on his film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi and his new series, Summer of 76.
His film ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’ released in 2005 had the “Emergency” as a backdrop as does his upcoming eight-part series ‘Summer of ’76’. How does he look back at the events of those days?
In a media interaction he recalled that Fifty years on, it’s complicated when you look at it. You have to see that those who fought against it, what happened to them, were they very different from those they opposed..Of course, the imposition of the Emergency was, for want of a better word, a not-so-great chapter in Indian history. It gave permission to a lot of petty tyrants. There was a government and from the village-level up, there were tin-pot tyrants who ruled the roost. Anybody could arrest anyone, say he is a Naxal and shoot him. This is what caused the actual problem.
What Mrs Gandhi and her people did not understand was that it was a ‘conference of the upset’ movement against the “Emergency” against them.
There was an entire disappointed generation. His series is about this moment. There was a generation that did not agree with the idea of India that was handed to them by their parents who had fought for freedom. They felt a sense of betrayal. Problem is those who rebelled didn’t realise that those who took power after that were actually worse than those they were opposing.
News Edit KV Raman
