 In 1943, the government issued an order under the Defence of India rules restricting the size of indigenously made films to 11,000 feet.In the beginning, the provincial leadership of the Indian National Congress under Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari was strongly opposed to India's forcible involvement in the Second World War but later, Rajagopalachari changed his mind and spoke in support of the British war effort even while his colleagues in New Delhi were still agitating against the war.Due to economic reasons, the different battalions of the Madras Regiment had been disbanded in stages.