STRANGELY enough, a TV channel screened the 1960s Indian movie Leader the other day, which was a day after Arvind Kejriwal filed an unusually bold FIR against India’s most powerful tycoon Mukesh Ambani and his alleged accomplices in the ruling party. The evicted Delhi chief minister claimed high-level collusion to arbitrarily jack up the price of natural gas the tycoon is licensed to extract from state-owned gas fields.
Leader is a rare film for which veteran thespian Dilip Kumar wrote the story. He also acted in it as a young editor of a newspaper, which he seems to have scripted after the fire-breathing weekly, Blitz. The iconic tabloid’s exposes of sleaze for nearly five decades from its inception in Bombay in 1941 are remembered in India as pacesetters for irreverent journalism.
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