{"id":5896,"date":"2016-06-14T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T09:35:55","slug":"kishore-kumar-manoj-kumar-dev-anand-government-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5896","title":{"rendered":"When Bollywood Biggies Did Not Hesitate to Speak Out Against the Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n the summer of 1976, the then Information and Broadcasting minister, Vidya Charan Shukla, issued a gag order to the state-owned broadcasters Doordarshan and All India Radio to ban all songs and films featuring Kishore Kumar. The blanket ban came during Indira Gandhi\u2019s flirtation with dictatorship \u2013 the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/jnu-fee-hike-kanhaiya-kumar-azaadi-elitism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emergency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The darkest hour of India&#8217;s democracy witnessed almost the entire opposition being locked up, the press being heavily monitored and censored, and civil liberties being curtailed. The ban on Kumar stayed for almost a year and a half \u2013 only revoked when the Emergency ended and the Indira Gandhi government was voted out of power in 1977. But the question remains: What had the veteran singer done to earn the government\u2019s wrath?\u00a0\n\nBack then, the government\u2019s spin doctors were working overtime to further propaganda in support of the Emergency. The I&#038;B ministry reached out to several top filmmakers to make ads and jingles promoting Sanjay <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/rahul-gandhi-renaissance-criticism-government-bjp-congress-politics-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gandhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s pet project \u2013 the 20-point Economic Programme, launched after the imposition of the Emergency. When officials approached Kishore Kumar, he bluntly declined telling them that he didn\u2019t wish to sing for radio or TV. The babus duly reported the singer\u2019s curt refusal to toe the government\u2019s line to their boss, VC Shukla. This came after Kumar had refused to perform at a Youth Congress rally in Bombay. Naturally, Shukla was convinced that it was time to teach the superstar singer a lesson and send a strong message to the film fraternity.\n\nThat\u2019s not to say that there weren\u2019t Bollywood stars who didn\u2019t fall in line when the government ordered them to do so. Manoj Kumar, for instance, was initially a supporter of the Emergency and yet, in no time, he emerged as one of the prominent voices of dissent. When Shukla\u2019s cronies approached him with an offer to direct a pro-Emergency documentary, he was livid. Not only did he refuse but also asked Amrita Pritam, who had written the script, if she had sold out. Kumar soon faced the consequences. Just two weeks before his movie <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shor<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was all set for a second theatrical release, it was mysteriously telecast on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/pehredaar-piya-ka-star-plus-daily-tv-soaps\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doordarshan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Two weeks later, the film bombed at the box office as no one went to the theatres to buy a ticket to watch the film again. Then when his film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dus Numbri<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was banned, Kumar challenged the decision in court spending several sleepless nights and lakhs of rupees from his own pocket. The silver lining arrived when he won the case, which earned him the honour of being the only filmmaker in the country to win a case against the Emergency.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The deafening silence of Bollywood biggies can\u2019t be chalked down to them being  apolitical either.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nEven Dev Anand and Shatrugan Sinha were not spared when they refused to comply with the government&#8217;s diktats. Just like Kishore Kumar, Anand and Sinha\u2019s movies were banned on Doordarshan. Anand along with his brothers, Chetan and Vijay Anand, went on to become one of the fiercest critics of the Emergency, dubbing it as an insult to the people of India. Sinha, on the other hand, was reportedly threatened that he would be implicated in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/baroda-dynamite-case-a-key-chapter-in-george-fernandes-life\/articleshow\/67739719.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baroda Dynamite Case<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if he didn\u2019t campaign for the Congress in Bihar. Joining these actors in their dissent against the dictatorial whims of the ruling establishment were industry&#8217;s bigwigs Gulzar, Raaj Kumar, V Shantaram, Uttam Kumar, Satyajit Ray, and Danny Denzongpa.\n\nFour decades later, India is facing curbs on media, the internet has been shut down in cities amid the growing nationwide resentment and protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register for Citizens. But Bollywood seems to have forgotten its history of standing up to those in power. What makes their silence even more ironic is that these anti-CAA protests have been led largely by young students who form a massive chunk of Bollywood\u2019s fanbase.\n\nAs the police unleashed a reign of terror in the Jamia Millia Islamia University two weeks ago, several big names from Bollywood including Shah Rukh Khan, Kabir Khan and Kiran Rao \u2013 all <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/photos\/politics\/jamia-millia-islamia-these-11-notable-personalities-are-ex-students-of-the-varsity-4883141-11.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alumni<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the university \u2013failed to utter a word expressing their solidarity for students of their alma mater. Aamir Khan, who emerged as a \u201cSunday morning activist\u201d of sorts for India\u2019s middle class with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satyamev Jayate<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seems to have gone into a shell after his 2015 remarks on the growing intolerance kicked off a storm. For actors who have on several occasions proudly flaunted the fact that they come from a family of freedom fighters (SRK\u2019s father Taj Mohammed Khan had been a part of Subhash Chandra Bose\u2019s INA and Aamir\u2019s great grand uncle was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad), the silence is a great disservice to legacy of their illustrious ancestors.\u00a0\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The lack of spine in Bollywood is neither surprising nor is it new.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nEven the younger crop of actors, supposedly more progressive, empathetic, and outspoken than the older generation, have been no different. On one hand, Ranveer Singh, the star of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gully Boy,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which adapted Kanhaiya Kumar\u2019s epoch-making chant of \u201cAzaadi\u201d into its soundtrack, remained conspicuous by his silence. And on the other, Deepika Padukone, Kareena Kapoor, and Akshay Kumar have instead chosen to look the other way and continue promoting their films. The likes of Vicky Kaushal and Ayushmann Khurrana \u2013 both of whom accepted the National Award on Monday even as the death toll in Uttar Pradesh kept rising\u00a0 \u2013 resorted to the oldest PR trick in the book: the balancing act. Even when these actors have said something, it\u2019s been as good as not saying anything. The select few who have been speaking out \u2013 Anurag Kashyap, Anubhav Sinha, Farhan Akhtar, Swara Bhaskar, Huma Qureshi, Parineeti Chopra, Dia Mirza, and Sushant Singh \u2013 remain in the minority.\n\nThe deafening silence of Bollywood biggies can\u2019t be chalked down to them being\u00a0 apolitical either. That argument surely doesn\u2019t hold water given that several of these A-listers, who now choose to exercise their right to silence, have rushed to click selfies with PM Narendra Modi in January this year, when campaigning for the general elections were at its peak. The lack of spine in Bollywood is neither surprising nor is it new. But given our history of dissent, it is certainly disappointing. Maybe today\u2019s actors could benefit from drawing inspiration from the actors in the \u201970s, who understood that being a hero onscreen meant little if you weren\u2019t invested in raising your voice and being a hero off-screen as well.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Emergency, Kishore Kumar, Manoj Kumar, and Dev Anand emerged as the fiercest voices against the establishment. Even as their songs and films were banned from Doordarshan, they remain undeterred. 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