Kotwal Saab

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• The theme music used in the opening credits of this film was originally used for the opening credits of another Hrishikesh Mukherjee film - "Anand" (1970). Salil Chowdhury had originally composed the theme music for the Bengali non-film song "Ogo Surangana" which was performed on All India Radio by Shyamal Mitra but never released commercially. He later reused the composition for the Kannada film song "Prema Virinchiya" ("Samshaya Phala", 1971).[1][2]
• Shatrughan Sinha was one of the many film personalities who were hounded by Indira Gandhi's government for their criticism of the Emergency. The Congress government's Information & Broadcasting Minister V.C. Shukla had even threatened to implicate Sinha in the Baroda dynamite case if he did not campaign for the Congress party in Bihar. The administration also targetted him through this film. The Censor Board held up the film and forced significant changes to it, resulting in the film being delayed. The film was eventually released only after the Emergency was over.[3][MR35]

1. ^ Anand (1970)
2. ^ Prema Virinchiya (Samshaya Phala, 1971)
3. ^ Book extracts from D.R. Mankekar's 'Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi'