Anurag Kashyap's Gulal

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Gulaal, the project closest to Anurag Kashyaps heart, took shape in 2001, when he was listening to songs from Pyaasa andPaanch was struggling with censors. Inspired by a song from Pyaasa, Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai, the film is a dedication to Sahir Ludhianwi, the lyricist of the song and all other poets who had a vision of India.

Gulaal is set in Rajpur a fictional city of Rajasthan, where a member of the erstwhile royal family stakes claim to the land of Rajasthan and wants to go back to the days of royalty. He wants Rajputana back from the Government of India and challenges the very idea of democracy. His history backs him, his people too, but the power corrupts him...

Similar to a Shakespearean fable of desire, lost identities, love, greed, violence, murder, deceit, power and innocence, it is a film inspired by poetry; the forgotten male, macho world of power, corruption and greed, where women are just means to an end while nobody can be trusted. It's a film that brings back poetry to cinema, songs that inspire us, shake us; sometimes a thriller, a drama, but poignant, shocking and provocative. It's a film about the conflict created as a modern India tries to break the shackl




This is also connected to the Sex ragging happend in Karnataka in a Medical College in 2001.
In 2001, the country was astounded with the news that a girl and a boy were made to strip by senior students and locked in a room for three days when they refused to have sex at a medical college in Bijapur, Karnataka. They were reportedly not even provided food or water and the seniors kept peeping through the windows to see if the two ended up having intercourse.

Reports claimed that the girl was forced out of her hostel by some seniors and was then confined to a room with a first-year boy student. 11 students were apparently accused in the crime.

"My film was written around 2001 and it is about student politics in colleges and shows how an idealistic revolution aimed at bringing out a noble result goes wrong when power-hungry people try to take command of the movement and corruption sets in," explains Anurag. "Several real incidents from college life and politics have inspired this film. There's one true college ragging incident that really bothered me. I was shocked to read that a boy and a girl were stripped naked by seniors at a college because they refused to have sex. It showed the degeneration. What disturbed me more was that these two kids were locked up in a room and people kept looking at them to see if they ended up making out to get out of their embarrassing situation. They stayed in that room for three days and were not even served food or water. It's inhuman, but a coarse reality from college life."

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1233971