Aandhi: The hurricane of an ambitious woman in a world dominated by men

Were there similarities between Indira Gandhi and Suchitra Sen's character in Gulzar's 1975 movie?

Early in Gulzar’s Aandhi (1975), politician Aarti Devi (Suchitra Sen), faces the ire of the people:

Written by the director himself, composed by R D Burman, and sung by Mohammed Rafi, Amit Kumar, and Bhupinder, this is a qawwali with a political twist. On her way to a political meeting, Aarti finds that blockades have been set up in the road her cavalcade is supposed to take. Undeterred, she starts out on foot, accompanied by her party men. The montage of shots establishes that the area through which is walking is a working-class district of the town. A