Title: Kissa Kursi Ka (IMDB)
Released: 1977
*ing: Manohar Singh, Shabana Azmi, Raj Kiran, Surekha Sikri
Director: Amrit Nahata
Language: Hindi
Genre: Politics, Satire
Basic Premise
The story of a politician’s corrupt rise to power and how he turns it into a dictatorship.
MovieNotes
Its election time. And this old political satire becomes a must-watch. How politicians manipulate the common man and then play their own games in their lust for power. All this while professing to work for the Common Man, who is personified as a mute woman in the movie.
The movie depicts how politicians cling onto power - manipulating elections, horse-trading, corrupt practices in government agencies from top-down, coverting with self-proclaimed godmen and industrialists, indulging in hyper-nationalistic banter with the neighbouring countries, even having a façade of war, manipulating and censoring media and resorting to all sorts of constitutional and under-hand tricks. Meanwhile the janta is exploited while the rich becomes richer. It also shows how people are expendable in this race for power!
The movie maybe four decades old but the message still resonates. No wonder the then government burnt the prints of the movie and banned it! And yes, in this politically charged up times, it is a grim reminder to the common man to make a learned choice and see through the façade of promises and fake news floating all around!
Rating: 8/10. A movie which stands the tests of time.
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