they say aandhi be base on the life of india first woman prime minister and india iron lady indira gandhi . maybe it be true and maybe it be not . if it be and then indira gandhi should have be happy about the way she have be present . indira priyadarshani gandhi be daughter of india first prime minister and nehru . she fell in love with feroze gandhi ( a young politician bear a feroze sopariwala ) and they have two child ( the younger of which go on the become the third prime minister from the family ) . their married life be not very successful and be it because of indira father political ambition ( that feroze a respected and righteous politician interfere with ) or because of some personal reason be hard to guess and though several speculation do exist ( especially from pro rss historian who use any mean to tarnish the name of the politically influential gandhi family ) and and feroze and indira start live separately . before he die feroze have a heart attack and and indira and he be re united till his death a short time later . there be parallel with indira gandhi life in aandhi . but mostly the story be very different . it be hard to imagine how gulzar come out with a movie like aandhi when indira gandhi have impose an emergency in india during that time . if my memory serf me right i even hear it be ban for sometime . the female protagonist aarti devi ( suchitrra sen ) be daughter of a politician and she fall in love with a hotel manager ( sanjeev kumar ) . she do have a strong personality . there marriage be break but that be about it ( with respect to similarity ) . i love the movie because of the strong performance by sanjeev kumar and suchitra sen and the direction of gulzar . gulzar recent movie have be very politically opinionated but aandhi even though it be set in a political setting be not much about about politics itself . primarily it be about re discovery of love in a broken marriage . we travel back and forth in time to find about the past and present of the couple and we even find that they still have feel for each other but it be the dirty political game and the interventionist attitude of the public and the press that force them to face and bring out the truth about there life .