VC Shukla, the man who banned Kishore Kumar

June 11, 2013 16:02

The Emergency (1975-77) saw VC Shukla at the height of his power, thanks to his closeness with Sanjay Gandhi. He imposed Press censorship with an unnatural zeal, cutting electric supply to presses and monitoring almost every story printed.

But his most famous (or infamous) act had nothing to do with the Indian Press, but with Bollywood. Shukla banned songs of Kishore Kumar from AIR and Doordarshan from May 4, 1976 till the end of the Emergency. Reason: Kishore had refused to sing at a Congress rally in Mumbai.
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