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The Indian National Emergency of 1975 to 1977, saw the suspension of civil liberties, increasing censorship, and extra-judicial state control. It is recognised as one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of postcolonial India, and its socio-political consequences have been exhaustively studied. Despite this, the profound cinematic implications of this event have remained relatively unexplored.
This book examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this 21 month period of political upheaval. Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, consider the various modes of state suppression adopted, from increasing levels of film censorship to police surveillance of film productions and exhibitions.
Contributors analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975) and Nasbandi (1978), which were banned for the duration of the Emergency, and overtly political films such as Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), the prints of which were permanently confiscated owing to the film's criticisms of the state. They also consider the political and aesthetic dilemmas of state-sponsored films such as Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1971), which was made to be explicitly apolitical and came to be known as a key work of New Indian Cinema.
Contents
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Vinzenz Hediger
Introduction
Dibyakusum Ray & Parichay Patra
1. The Fear of Cinema
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
2. Not by Emergency Alone: An Unending Saga of Political Repression and Content Control
Someswar Bhowmik
3. State: A Patron and a Tyrant: Indian Film Society Movement in 'Emergency' Times
Amrit Gangar
4. The Emergency, FFC/NFDC, and New Cinema in India (1970s)
Sudha Tiwari
5. Between a Logo and a Memo: State-Sponsored Documentary Films During the Emergency
Ritika Kaushik
6. Memories and Mixed-Media: The Event and the Archive
Vinayak Das Gupta & Ananya Juneja
7. 'A Unique Indian Revolution': S. Sukhdev, the Films Division and the Emergency
Vikrant Dadawala
8. The Emergency and Its Media Afterlife
Ranjani Mazumdar
9. In Defense of a Not-So-Political Cinema
Parichay Patra
10. From 'dictatorship' to dictatorship: the dynamics of alien and 'legitimized' authoritarianism in 1980s popular Hindi films
Dibyakusum Ray
11. The Long 1970s: Anjan Dutt as Archive, Some Interfaces
Kaushik Bhaumik