Kangana Ranaut has announced the streaming date of her Indira Gandhi biopic Emergency, which she also directed. Taking to her Instagram stories, Kangana posted that the film will hit Netflix on March 17. The film had its theatrical release on January 17.
Featuring Kangana Ranaut, Anupam Kher, Shreyas Talpade, Vishak Nair, and Milind Soman, among others, Emergency depicts the tumultuous journey of Indira Gandhi before becoming Prime Minister and the conflicts she had to deal with during the Emergency period from 1975 to 1977. The big-budget film was reportedly declared a flop at the box office.
The film's review in THE WEEK described Kangana's filmmaking as "fairly solid from a technical standpoint when compared to some of the recent films based on real-life Indian political figures. With the able hands of her Japanese director of photography, Tetsuo Nagata, she steers a film that feels fairly epic in scope and moves along briskly despite a two-hour-plus time, even if it doesn't attempt anything groundbreaking."
Prior to its release, the film faced several issues, including the concerns brought up by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) as to the nature of some of the material, causing multiple delays for the theatrical release. The film also drew flak from Sikh groups which alleged that their community was painted in a bad light, following which it was decided to stall the release in some theatres in Punjab, aside from cancelled screenings in theatres in some parts of the United Kingdom.
