Actress Mrunal Thakur recently watched Kangana Ranaut's Emergency and she was all praise for the actress-turned-politician.

The 69-year-old actor is gearing up for his upcoming film Metro… In Dino. Helmed by Anurag Basu, the film also stars Aditya ...

What writer-director Kangana Ranaut has made is a full-fledged, political bio-documentary, detailing the defining moments of Indira Gandhi’s public life, before and after the Emergency that she ...

Akerkar’s research included Katherine Frank’s biography Indira and videos of Gandhi’s speeches. “I kind of got the cadence of her voice – she talked in a very high-pitched kind of voice ...

For starters, its focus isn’t the Emergency; the events of 1975-77 take up, at a rough estimate, half an hour in a 146-minute film. Instead, this is very much a Indira Gandhi biopic, progressing ...

The Kangana Ranaut directorial is a fictional account of Indira Gandhi’s personal life experiences as a daughter, wife, politician and a woman of the nation. Led by Kangana in the leading role, the ...

As the film sees it, India’s first nuclear test ... Ranaut’s potted biopic of Indira Gandhi has no surprises in its choice of defining events. The story, credited to Ranaut, is based on ...

When the film seems to settle ... At most, Ranaut interprets Indira Gandhi as deluded, largely misunderstood and sparingly prone to displaying political tact. Her opponents come away as all ...

However, her performance alone can’t pull up a slogging film. Emergency is a mere narration of events. It isn’t dramatic or lively. It is just Indira Gandhi’s life flashing before our eyes.

After Ranaut, the most formidable performance in the film is by Vishak Nair (Sanjay Gandhi), who played a role in the state-run population control program. The exchanges with Indira and Sanjay are ...