Sudhir Nehruvian Model Of Civil Disobedience

Civil disobedience and non-cooperation movement in India was something that Gandhi initiated in India since the mid 1920’s.The revolutionary movement for Indian Independence spearheaded by Gandhi was based on ideals such as ahimsa and non-violence. After Independence, the Nehruvian model of development based on the four pillars of parliamentary democracy, secularism, economic planning for establishing a welfare estate and a policy of non-alignment brought about its own problems for the citizens of the country of a highly stratified society. Post-Independence as rightly pointed out by Sanjay Sanghi, especially during 1970’s there were movements of landless, unorganized labour in rural and urban areas, adivasis, dalits, displaced people, peasants,

The Director having a political family background and a youth culture from then Delhi, through this film highlights that communist ideology and its attraction among young students that create a platform for intellectual debate to move towards social change, perhaps something which he himself experienced during his life while studying in the university in Delhi. His first score as his directorial debut, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin was a film about young students and their activism and how as adults they find themselves confronted by political skirmishes which had won him the Best First Film of a Director at national level. Since 1983 as screenwriter and since 1987 as a director and screenwriter he has won many both national and International film awards and a lot of his work has to do with socio-political

Vikram with his business minded attitude is a fixer in the power corridors of government, working with politicians and bureaucrats and facilitating several deals for interested parties. The only regret he lives with perhaps is that he could not marry his love, Geeta. Geeta on the other hand is married to a ‘has it all’ IAS officer, Arun Mehta and enjoys certain assurance, social security and “respect” in the community and the government domain. Although, she is married to this IAS officer, she later meets Siddharth again and has an extramarital affair with