New Delhi Times

New Delhi Times
Directed by	Ramesh Sharma
Produced by	P. K. Twari
Written by	Gulzar
Starring	Shashi Kapoor Sharmila Tagore Om Puri Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Music by	Louis Banks
Cinematography	Subrata Mitra
Edited by	Renu Saluja
Running time	123 minutes
Language	Hindi

New Delhi Times is 1986 Hindi film directed by Romesh Sharma and written by Gulzar, starring Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in lead roles. The film is about a newspaper editor who exposes the politics-media corruption nexus.

The political drama film with a controversial storyline about political corruption and media, ran into trouble when film distributors and television refused to run the film, though later it went on to win three National Film Awards. It remains one of few Bollywood films to tackle the issue of corruption in media, which include Kundan Shah's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983), Main Azaad Hoon (1989) and Rann (2010)

The film tells the story of an honest journalist Vikas Pande (Shashi Kapoor) from Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh who moves to Delhi to run a newspaper, and soon uncovers a political assassination, and in the process, falls prey to a corrupt system and the nexus between politicians and media barons. The film starts with the assassination of a local MLA Bhaleram in the circuit house of Ghazipur. The guard of the circuit house goes missing. Vikas Pande is the upright and fearless executive editor of New Delhi Times newspaper and is in the process of exposing a scandal of illegal hooch that killed 100s of people. Meanwhile, there is a power struggle going on between the incumbent chief minister Chaturvedi and the ambitious MLA Ajay Singh Om Puri for the post of chief minister.

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