Under these circumstances, the Congress party released Prandavi and arranged for a high-ranking party member to marry her, apparently valuing her influence and trying to gain votes from the lower castes.

The Congress Party has even done this because it has been a bad year this year, with seed Rajiv Gandhi being assassinated in May and his wife Sonia Gandhi refusing to take charge. With the second phase of the general election just around the corner, the Congress Party Working Committee unanimously elected Pa Van Narasimhe Rao to replace the party chairman on 29 May. This is the first time in 13 years that a member of the non-Nehru-Gandhi family has been elected president of the Congress Party.

The Congress Party is in trouble, so his old rival the People's Party will naturally not let go of this good opportunity and start a big campaign, Rao's team in order to win votes against the crazy counterattack of the People's Party, forced to release Prandavi, in order to rely on her to win the votes of the lower castes and women. (Pran David wasn't released at this time, but for the sake of the plot, I'll advance it here, anyway, no matter which party releases her, the purpose is the same.) ）

This kind of political struggle naturally has nothing to do with Shakru, but when he saw the news, the first thing that came to mind was a very classic Indian movie "The Bandit Queen" that he had watched, and it was because of this movie that he knew and remembered the name of Pran David, so it also gave him an idea that he had thought about for a long time, that is, to open a film company.

Shaklu's purpose in opening a film company is not to make money, or his main purpose is not to make money, because he is not short of money at all now, if there is no big accident in the future, the income of Infosys and the little blue pill alone is enough to ensure his life, not to mention that there will be more economic crises in the next ten or twenty years, and if you want to make quick money, you can snipe there.

Therefore, Shaklu's purpose is more to shoot the classic movies in his impression and those films that can reflect the social reality, so that people all over the world can understand a real India, so that knowledgeable Indians can think after watching the movie, and of course, as a movie fan, he also wants to enjoy the sense of accomplishment that his film has caused a sensation and heated discussions.

As early as 1913, India had its own film "King Harischandra", the fifties of the twentieth century was the golden age of Indian films, and in 1952 the first international film festival was held, until the seventies, most of the Indian films were still profitable, but since the eighties, although the output of Indian films is still the first in the world, the box office has been declining year by year, and the profit of films is less than five percent.

Cinema occupies an important social position in India. Perhaps because of religious beliefs, Indians are more advocating spiritual life than material life, fantasizing about ethereal romance, and reveling in the world of nothingness. As a result, Indian cinema is extremely romantic and seriously detached from social reality. The costumes and backgrounds are very gorgeous, and the heroes and heroines are singing and dancing, happy and cheerful. Singing and dancing are essential elements in Indian cinema. In a standard 3-hour Indian movie, there is an average of a singing and dancing scene every 30 minutes.

In Bollywood, India's most famous film base, for example, almost all films have at least one scene of singing and dancing. Audiences in India expect value for money, and the film's performers are often referred to as "paisavasool", which means "money is worth it". Singing and dancing, love triangles, comedy and Daredevil thrillers – all mingled in a three-hour-long, extravagant show with an intermission. These films are called "masala" films, named after the Hindi word "masala" which means blended spices. Like the "masala" spice, these films are really a mixture of all sorts of things.

The plot of the film is mostly popular farce, and there are many formulaic elements in it, such as ill-fated couples, angry parents, corrupt officials, kidnappers, wicked people with conspiracies, good women who have fallen into the dust, long-lost relatives and brothers and sisters separated by fate, dramatic twists of fate, and convenient coincidences.

This kind of film is shot to cater to the domestic market, so there is almost no connotation and profound significance, naturally it cannot achieve influence in the international film industry, and because the income of the Indian people is very low, coupled with the deliberate control of the government, the ticket price is extremely low, and there is no charge at all when it is screened in the countryside, so although there are many movies filmed, there are few that can make money.

Shakru's planned film company does not want to follow this old path, he wants to target overseas markets and the middle class in India, so this has high requirements for the quality and content of the film, and this "Bandit Queen" fully meets his current requirements.

First of all, the influence of Prandavid's story in India is too great, so if her experience is made into a movie, as long as it can be released, there will definitely be people who are curious to come to watch it; Second, this kind of film that reflects the real situation in India can definitely attract a lot of overseas audiences in terms of subject matter and concept, because everyone's understanding of India is relatively superficial and one-sided; Third, this movie doesn't need handsome men and beautiful women, and doesn't need big-name stars, as long as you find a good director and a group of powerful actors, it can basically be formed, so it is very in line with the choice of film source when a new film company starts.

The only trouble is whether this kind of movie can pass the review, but Shakru is not particularly worried about this, the big deal is not to release it in India first, but to screen it abroad, and come to the wall to bloom and fragrance outside the wall.

Another big advantage of Shaklu is that he is well-funded. Until 2000, banks in India were forbidden to lend money for film production, so except for a few art films where directors can apply for state grants, all other film funds come from independent distributors or a few large film companies, and even many Indian gangsters are involved in the production and distribution of films, so as to launder money and achieve other purposes.

PS: Push a few new books by the same group of authors, "The Summoning of the Deer", "There is an Army Called Beiyang", "Red Song Dynasty", "Tang Dynasty Hegemony", "Take a Princess Back to Modern Times" and "Red France", although I haven't read the book, but the authors are good!