Movie on Emergency

Filmmaker and National Award-winning director  Madhur Bhandarkar is known for movies with strong female characters.  Now, he is  well  set to come up with another female-oriented movie. His next movie titled  `Main, Indu`,  is set during the 21 months of Emergency, when legal rights were restricted.  Madhur says    that the  movie is not based on former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as the title suggests.   Indu, in this movie has no reference to  former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who imposed Emergency on June 26, 1975 in India,  or any real-life character.  In fact, the protagonist is a poet who stammers and rebels against the system during these trying times. Madhur has already been working on this project for the last six months and wishes to start it in August 2016. Meanwhile he  has met several political leaders, journalists, prominent authors as part of his preparation.  Incidentally,  this is the right time as today`s Central government comprises  most of the  victims of Emergency.  The director can  easily access necessary documents from government and other agencies. Yes, many of the  senior  victims are no longer available  but certainly  many of the youths of that era will be  there.