Minister vinister to hote hi hain hatane ke liye

 Film : New Delhi Times

Year of release : 1986

Spoken by : Vikas Pande (Shashi Kapoor)

Spoken to : Office employee

Dialogue writer : Gulzar

Time stamp : 7m

This is one of the few films which have been written by Gulzar but is not always directly associated with Gulzar . This film captures the state of journalism in India in the 1980s. Since journalism in the 80s was not TV journalism, this entirely revolves around the life of an editor called Vikas Pandey played by Shashi Kapoor. So if you want to see an authentic newspaper office in the 80s how it looked like you can see it in this film. Right at the beginning at the time stamp of 7 minutes and 30 seconds one of the employees walks into the editor's office and they're looking at the possibility of the Chief minister Trivedi resigning. So this employee asks Vikas Pandey - you think the chief minister will be removed and Shashi Kapoor gives a beautiful answer -

"arre minister vinister to hote hi hain hatane kiliye, sab apni dehaaDi karte hain. Permanent to bechare secretaries hua karte hain"

I remembered this line recently when Dharmendra Pradhan resigned. It took a long time, but 40 years ago Shashi Kapoor had predicted it while playing the role of the editor in the movie New Delhi Times. This film could have been a great film but there was something missing. This film was also banned by Doordarshan for showing some riot scenes, but that that is a story for some other day.