Thunder of Freedom (L.V.) (1976)
Director: S. Sukhdev; Cinematographer: S. Sukhdev; Editor: S. Sukhdev
Duration: 00:21:20; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 7.768; Saturation: 0.006; Lightness: 0.414; Volume: 0.284; Cuts per Minute: 9.089; Words per Minute: 87.427
Summary: Sukhdev’s Emergency propaganda documentary is the best known of the Film-20 series illustrating the benefits of Indira Gandhi’s Twenty-point Economic Programme. Shot mainly in and around New Delhi, the film presents the pre-Emergency period as riddled with riots and disruptions, in which ‘almost anyone’ could bring all legal processes to a standstill. It interviews a factory owner who praises the absence of labour agitation and two noted journalists, Dileep Padgaonkar and Abu Abraham, both of whom express some doubt about the loss of fundamental human rights while agreeing that the breakdown of the State infrastructure prior to the Emergency was not a situation to which the country would wish to return.
Acknowledgements: Gopal Maharesh,
Govind Maharesh,
B.L. Maisurya,
M. Michael,
Salim Shaikh
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Crowds and Power 2
Crowds are effects of collectivity, the influence—whether conscious, affective, or unconscious—of others. Contemporary social science analyzes these effects with terms like “band-wagoning,” “bubbles,” and “information cascades.” Mainstream commentary continues to use terms from earlier crowd theory: “imitation,” “suggestion,” and “contagion.” Jodi Dean, Crowds and Party (2016).
Sukhdev's famous pro-Emergency
Thunder of Freedom produces the mob as the reason for the state crackdown.
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Sukhdev, in his own voice and thoughts.
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Sukhdev: But in the days following the Emergency some thousands of families had begun a new life in a lightning manner.
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