Film Amu based on Sikh riots screened in Pune
The Committee for Peoples Empowerment (Lok Raj Sanghatan)screened the internationally acclaimed and national award winning film AMU on 13th December at the Film Archives Pune, to celebrate Human Rights Day 2005. Over 300 activists, students and social workers from Pune city viewed the film.
The film is by Shonali Bose. Amu is one of the bravest political film by any Indian director in years because it deals with a subject that most Indians have forgotten, - the anti Sikh pogrom that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. Twenty years after the riots, Shonali Bose attempts to recreate some of the horrors without sentimentality. As you watch a hapless Sikh being dragged off to be scalped, his cries of “Mainey ki kitha?” (what did I do?) makes you recall Kashmir, Gujarat and the Mandal riots where innocent died. Bold and moving performances are given by Brinda Karat and Konkona Sen Sharma.
Delia, Thankamma and Sheela of the FOGM assisted LRS in organising the show.
The film is by Shonali Bose. Amu is one of the bravest political film by any Indian director in years because it deals with a subject that most Indians have forgotten, - the anti Sikh pogrom that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. Twenty years after the riots, Shonali Bose attempts to recreate some of the horrors without sentimentality. As you watch a hapless Sikh being dragged off to be scalped, his cries of “Mainey ki kitha?” (what did I do?) makes you recall Kashmir, Gujarat and the Mandal riots where innocent died. Bold and moving performances are given by Brinda Karat and Konkona Sen Sharma.
Delia, Thankamma and Sheela of the FOGM assisted LRS in organising the show.
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