mannerisms, and even the film’s title (Aandhi,meaning storm, rhymes with Gandhi) are undeniable, Gulzar explains in an oldFilmfareinterviewthat he never intended to base this film on the life of Indira Gandhi:
As Suniti Kumar Chatterjee explains in The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language(1926), Bengali predates the age of the province of Bengal in pre-partition India, originally a part of the Eastern Indo-Iranian or Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Having previously settled in ...