Dilip Kumar reinvented speech itself for the cinema. He spoke to us because he had that special quality of speaking, almost magically, from inside of us -- articulating our intimacies.
In sundry functional terms, we are practically already in an Emergency. Why? Because the power to make even the most ordinary decisions has been stripped from millions and millions of citizens and those have been sucked up by the State.
The State wants to be the grand jury, playing patron like the old nawabs and rajas. But art is a sovereign nation... and just how do you summon a king to the court?