What started out as just another appointment of the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) chairman has now become a potboiler with political agenda, melodrama, violence, and everything in between thrown in.

The government had obviously not anticipated this kind of reaction, snowballing into almost a national agitation, when they announced Gajendra Chauhan as the new chairman for the prestigious film school. The students not only protested but also took the matter to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. Much to their dismay, the talks apparently failed and things got worse when Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi decided to jump into the fray.