New Delhi Times

New Delhi Times is 1986 Hindi film directed by Romesh Sharma and written by Gulzar, starring Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in lead roles. The film is about a newspaper editor who exposes the politicsmedia corruption nexus.

The film tells the story of an honest journalist Vikas Pande Shashi Kapoor from Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh who moves to Delhi to run a newspaper, and soon uncovers a political assassination, and in the process, falls prey to a corrupt system and the nexus between politicians and media barons. The film starts with assassination of a local MLA Bhaleram in circuit house of Ghazipur. The guard of the circuit house goes missing and the entry Vikas Pande is an upright and fearless executive editor of New Delhi Times newspaper and in a process of exposing a scandal of illegal hooch that killed 100s of people. Meanwhile there is a power struggle going on between incumbent chief minister Chaturvedi and ambitious MLA Ajay Singh Om Puri for the post of chief minister. Ajay Singh is dangerous man and linked with all types of illegal activities likes drug trafficking, smuggling, extortion, looting, etc. His business is managed by trusted lieutenant Iqbal. Iqbal is arrested in the murder case of Bhaleram. He is the cause to frequent riots that are taking place in Ghazipur. Vikas goes to Ghazipur to cover the riots and meets locals. Here he finds overwhelming evidences which suggests that Ajay Singh is somehow linked with the murder. ........

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