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{{short description|1977 film by Amrit Nahata}}
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| director = [[Amrit Nahata]]
| producer = Bhagwant Deshpande Vijay Kashmiri Baba Majgavkar
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| starring = [[Shabana Azmi]] [[Raj Kiran (actor)|Raj Kiran]] [[Utpal Dutt]] [[Rehana Sultan]] [[Manohar Singh]]
| music = [[Jaidev]]
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1977}}
| runtime = 142 min.
| country = India
| language = Hindi
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'''''Kissa Kursi Ka''''' ({{translation|Tale of Throne}}) is a [[Bollywood films of 1977|1977]] Indian [[Hindi]]-language [[political satire]] film directed by [[Amrit Nahata]], who was a member of Indian parliament and produced by Badri Prasad Joshi. The film was a satire on the politics of [[Indira Gandhi]] and her son [[Sanjay Gandhi]] and was banned by the [[Indian Government]] during [[The Emergency (India)|the Emergency]] period and all prints were confiscated. Music of the film was composed by Jaidev Verma.<ref name="times">{{Cite web | title = The first ladies of cinema| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-14/news-interviews/28246429_1_indira-gandhi-manisha-koirala-sonia-gandhi | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140215110430/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-14/news-interviews/28246429_1_indira-gandhi-manisha-koirala-sonia-gandhi | url-status = dead | archive-date = 15 February 2014 | date =14 December 2010 | newspaper = [[The Times of India]]| accessdate = 14 June 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Prakash2007">{{cite book|author=Abhinav Prakash|title=Code of Criminal Procedure|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PYW74wDoHP4C&pg=PA98|accessdate=14 June 2013|year=2007|publisher=Universal Law Publishing|isbn=978-81-7534-614-7|pages=98–}}</ref>

==Plot==
The plot revolved around a corrupt and evil politician Gangaram or Gangu, played by [[Manohar Singh]], trying to woo [[Personification|personified]] public, depicted as mute and helpless looking ([[Shabana Azmi]].) The movie is a humorous comment over the system and the selfishness of the politicians regarded as a motion picture version of the [[cartoonist]] columns that are the most brutal taunt over the politics.

==Music==
#"Janatha Ki Jai Bolo" – [[Asha Bhosle]], [[Mahendra Kapoor]]
#"Sunte Ho Aji Sunte Ho" – [[Vinod Sharma]], Madhur Bhushan, SaritaSethi, Sudhir Pandey, Pradeep Shukla

==Cast==
* [[Shabana Azmi]] as Janta
* [[Utpal Dutt]]
* [[Rehana Sultan]]
* [[Manohar Singh]] as President Gangaram 'Gangu'
* [[Surekha Sikri]] as Meera
* [[Raj Kiran (Bollywood actor)|Raj Kiran]] as Gopal
* Chaman Bagga as Deshpal – President's Secretary
* Katy Mirza as Ruby Dixsana
* Swapna Sundari as an [[item number]]

==Ban and print confiscation==
The film was submitted to the [[Central Board of Film Certification|Censor Board]] for certification on in April 1975. The film had spoofed [[Sanjay Gandhi]] auto-manufacturing plans (later established as [[Maruti Udyog]] in 1981), besides Congress supporters like Swami [[Dhirendra Brahmachari]], private secretary to Indira Gandhi [[R.K. Dhawan]], and [[Rukhsana Sultana]]. The board sent to seven-member revising committee, which further sent it to Union government. Subsequently, a show-cause notice raising 51 objections was sent to the producer by the Information and Broadcasting ministry. In his reply submitted on 11 July 1975, Nahata stated that the characters were "imaginary and do not refer to any political party or persons". By the time, [[The Emergency (India)|the Emergency]] has already been declared.<ref name=today06/>

Subsequently, all the prints and the master-print of the film at Censor Board office were picked up, later brought to Maruti factory in [[Gurgaon]], where they were burned. The subsequent [[Shah Commission]] established by Government of India in 1977 to inquiry into excesses committed in the Indian Emergency found Sanjay Gandhi guilty of burning the negative, along with [[V. C. Shukla]], Information and Broadcasting minister of the time.<ref name=today06>{{Cite web | title = 30 greatest stories revisited: Sanjay Gandhi and 'Kissa Kursi Ka' film lampooning him : Cover Story | url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/sanjay-gandhi-faces-trial-for-destroying-film-prints/1/182276.html | work =India Today | date = 18 December 2006| accessdate = 14 June 2013 }}</ref><ref name=today09>{{Cite web | title = 1978– Kissa Kursi Ka: Celluloid chutzpah : Cover Story| url =http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/1978-+Kissa+Kursi+Ka:+Celluloid+chutzpah/1/76362.html | work =India Today | date =24 December 2009| accessdate = 14 June 2013 }}</ref> The only surviving print was made available on its TV Telecast on [[Zee TV]]

==Legal case==
The legal case ran for 11 months, and court gave its judgment on 27 February 1979. Both Sanjay Gandhi and Shukla were sentenced to a month and two-year jail term imprisonment. Sanjay Gandhi was denied bail. The verdict was later overturned.<ref name=today06/><ref name=today09/> In his judgment, District Judge, O. N. Vohra at Tis Hazari Court in Delhi, found the accused, guilty of "[[criminal conspiracy]], breach of trust, mischief by fire, dishonestly receiving criminal property, concealing stolen property and disappearance of evidence".<ref name="pete">{{Cite web |title = Sanjay Gandhi Guilty in Film Case| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=401SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OnwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3654,2919971&dq=amrit+nahata&hl=en | publisher =[[St. Petersburg Times]] | date = 27 February 1979 | accessdate = 14 June 2013 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|author=Amrit Nahata|title=Kissā kursī kā|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egUwAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=14 June 2013|year=1977|publisher=Rājapāla}}
* {{cite book|author=Jagat S. Bright|title=Allahabad High Court to Shah Commission|chapter=14. Kissa Kuris Ka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=no4BAAAAMAAJ|page=43|year=1979|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications}}

== References ==

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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0311401}}
* {{Bollywood Hungama title|506165}}

[[Category:1977 films]]
[[Category:Indian political films]]
[[Category:Censorship in India]]
[[Category:Censored films]]
[[Category:1970s lost films]]
[[Category:1970s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Works about the Emergency (India)]]
[[Category:Films scored by Jaidev]]
[[Category:Indian satirical films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Films featuring an item number]]

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