![]() ![]() After her defeat in the 1977 national elections, the ruling Janata Party cleared it and had it premiered on the state-run television channel. The ban immediately made the film a national topic. The ban got further added with the declaration of National Emergency. So Election Commission stopped the film from releasing. This film was banned on the alleged grounds of violation of the Model Election Code of Conduct, claiming it can cause damage to the reputation of the Congress party. The film was banned during the national emergency of 1975 a few months after its release. The movie was not allowed a full proper release when Mrs. ![]() Suchitra Sen, the noted actress from Bengali cinema, who also worked in a few Hindi films, played the lead role of Aarti Devi. The movie is noted for its songs composed by Rahul Dev Burman, written by Gulzar and sung by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. The story is based on a chance meeting of an estranged couple after several years, when wife Aarti Devi, now a leading politician happens to stay in the hotel run by her husband during an election campaign. At the time it was alleged that the film was based on the life of the then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her relationship with her estranged husband, but in reality, only the look was inspired by the politician Tarkeshwari Sinha and Indira Gandhi. Aandhi ( translation: Storm) is a 1975 Indian political drama film starring Sanjeev Kumar and Suchitra Sen, and directed by Gulzar. ![]()
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