indu sarkar (2017)Indu Sarkar tries to examine the Emergency period through the eyes of its protagonist, Indu Sarkar. Indu (Kirti Kulhari) is an orphan girl with a defined stammer due to which she is never adopted from the orphanage that she has been brought up in. Finding solace in words, Indu aspires to be a poet, but is discouraged from doing so, prodded instead to be a good housewife. Without a sense of direction, Indu is quite happy when Navin Sarkar (Tota Roy Chowdhury) marries her, providing her with a home, and more importantly, a surname. This guy, Navin Sarkar, is a sychophant. He is the quintessential babu, who loves the comfort and promise of a cushy government job and detests the public who questions his employer. He is the ‘yes man’ to the Development Minister, who tells him to milk the Emergency period for his benefit. Now, the fact that her husband is a government employee hasn’t bothered Indu at all until she tells him about the protests against the Emergency that she had witnessed at the market and he reprimands her for the same. Committed to her role of being the dutiful homemaker, Indu turns a blind eye to the injustice all around her, till, in a turn of events, she finds herself to be the sole caretaker of two kids, whose parents were killed in a government-organised slum demolition. Identifying with the struggle of the orphaned kids, she gives them asylum. But her husband, who is a loyalist of the reigning government, throws a fit over this and asks Indu to choose between him and the kids. She obviously does what she has to and moves out of his house. Unassumingly she also becomes a part of the underground movement against the government, led by Nanaji (Anupam Kher). The government in question here is obviously the one that had imposed the Emergency. And while there’s only a glimpse of the then Prime Minister (Supriya Vinod), it is her son, Chief (Neil Nitin Mukesh) who does the ordering..
