National Press Day: Bollywood films on journalism that showed the harsh reality of society

Well in this time when we actually need a day to show the power and ability of journalism and press, the nation observes National Press Day. Bollywood is the largest medium of entertainment and Bollywood also has sometimes shown the harsh and truth of society with the journalism oriented films. Now on the national press day, here we show you some of the movies that made on journalism in Bollywood.

1. Page 3 - If you talk about the reality of journalism and the reality about the glamour world of cinema. Then you should watch Madhur Bhandarkar's Page 3 that showed how media is so obsessed with Page 3 gossips and how film people use the power of media.

2. Madras Cage - This John Abraham starrer was mainly set in the backdrop of Sri Lanka in 1980s and 90s and how India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination took place. Nargis Fakhri played the role of journalist showed how sometimes even journalists have more contacts then army and defence people.

3. Nayak - Nayak was although a commercial cinema but in the film, Anil Kapoor played an honest journalist who got a chance to be a one day CM and that's how a journalist changes the society.

4. Rann - This film was directed by Ram Gopal Varma that stars Amitabh Bachchan and Riteish Deshmukh in the leading roles. The films revolve around a CEO of a news channel who is manipulated by his son and son-in-law to plant a false story. This film showed the power of media and how they can change and ruin the image of anyone.

5. Lakshya - In this movie of Farhan Akhtar starring Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta played the role of a journalist somehow similar to leading journalist Barkha Dutt who covered the bravery of Indian soldiers during Kargil war 1999.

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