Govind Nihalani, Indian filmmaker on his film "Drohkaal", in Mumbai

From the archive record

The latest offering from the master filmmaker Govind Nihalani is now complete and is to be screened at the 26th international film festival in Bombay and already the film is being tipped as a major cinema event of the year. Interestingly Govind has dedicated the film to the centenary of world cinema. The British film institute had asked me like many others to write the diary of what they were doing on 10th of June 1993, and on this day if we had to celebrate the centenary of world cinema I am not sitting and doing nothing so I decided to start a film the script which I had written four years ago which was Drohkaal." As in other films of Govind Nihalani, there are no facile characters in Drohkaal. Ostensibly the film is about terrorism and the experiences of the individual a police officer