STORIZEN EVENTS
HOT OFF THE PRESS In the 150th year of his Birth, A Gandhian Affair is A History Of India Through The Preoccupations Of Its Cinema Under The Spell Of The Mahatma
ABOUT THE BOOK Sex has always dominated Hindi cinema – but in a curious hide-andseek sort of way.
how cinema was made within welldefined moral fences that were built with dos and don’ts about sex and money.
Sanjay Suri argues that Hindi cinema was the unlikely offspring of the Father of the Nation in this respect – a product of his celibacy and austerity. Gandhi’s heroic retreat from wealth and sexuality was written into the cinema and then elaborately filmed shot by shot. Just about every film brings up these two themes for the hero to then rise above.
In the 150th year of his birth, A Gandhian Affair is a history of India through the preoccupations of its cinema under the spell of the Mahatma.
Suri draws on numerous examples – from Mother India to Do Bigha Zameen; Naya Daur to Pyaasa; Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam to Guide; and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge to Lage Raho Munna Bhai – to show
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STORIZEN MAGAZINE
AUGUST 2019