[Naxalite Maoist India] Nero's Guests screening - 3rd March 2011 in Bangalore

Nero's Guest - Film Screening at IISC, Bangalore, 3rd March, 5:30 pm

Nero's Guests Official Trailer


ABOUT THE FILM:

Nearly two lakh farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years. But the mainstream media hardly reflects this.Nero´s Guests is a story about India's agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of the Rural Affairs Editor of Hindu newspaper, *P Sainath*. Through sustained coverage of the farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues created the national agenda, compelling a government in denial to take notice and act. Through his writings and lectures, Sainath makes us confront the India we don't want to see, and provokes us to think about who 'Nero's Guests' are in today's world.

ABOUT P SAINATH:

P Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, is the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia's most prestigious prize (and often referred to as the 'Asian Nobel'), for Journalism Literature and Creative Communications Arts. Winner of over 35 global and national awards, his current work the agrarian crisis has produced the largest journalistic body of work ever on the Indian countryside in terms of the problems faced by farming communities. It is also a body of work that goes far beyond the realm of journalism, capturing issues and complexities that academia and policy makers have failed to.

ABOUT DEEPA BHATIA

Deepa Bhatia is a Film Editor, based in Mumbai. She has worked with acclaimed directors like Govind Nihalani (Dev, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Deham) & Jahnu Barua (Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara, Har Pal). She recently edited 'My Name is Khan' directed by Karan Johar. Her other popular work as editor includes Rock On & Taare Zameen Par. Deepa has also been involved in research on several documentaries & films. *Nero's Guests is her first independent documentary.*

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Posted By Cpi Maoist Naxalite to Naxalite Maoist India at 2/28/2011 09:41:00 AM

[Naxalite Maoist India] The Die is Caste screening in Bangalore - 18th Feb 2011

Bangalore International Centre presents

"The Die is Caste"

Directed by Mr. Ranjan Kamath

Duration of film: 83 minutes

Language: Hindi with English Subtitles

Mr. Ranjan Kamath, Director will be present to interact with the audience after the screening.

Date: Friday, 18th February, 2011 at 6.00 p.m.

Tea will be served at 5:30 pm

About the film:

'The Die is Caste' is an appraisal of three decades of the Naxalite (extreme left) movement in the state of Bihar, in eastern India. It examines the role of Naxalites (e.g. Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninst) Liberation, People's War Group and Maoist Communist Centre) as agents of socio-political change, employing violence.

Against the backdrop of Parliamentary and Legislative Assembly elections in Bihar, between 1999-2001, the film portrays the change - over 30 years - in social and political status of the Scheduled Castes (i.e. the lower castes including the Dalits or "Untouchables"); the benefits accruing to the middle castes engineered by the Mandal Commission and the emergence of Laloo Yadav and the consequent violent backlash from the upper-caste landlord militias like the Ranvir Sena.

'The Die is Caste' is thus an exploration of caste dynamics in Bihar and raises the question as to whether any benefit has accrued to the Schedule Castes or are they mere pawns on the political chessboard.

Excerpt from the documentary " The Die Is Caste"


Link to Video

Ranjan Kamath

Ranjan Kamath graduated with an ssociate degree from Trinity School of Music in London. He began working in Calcutta's theatre and music world soon after, both as an actor and stage/lighting designer. He then went on to work as an assistant director in Bombay on documentaries and short films.

He has completed his post-graduation from the London International Film School, with a distinction in Cinematography, and has been working as a producer and director/ cinematographer on Indian features, international co-productions and short features for the BBC, Channel Four, National Geography and others.

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Posted By Cpi Maoist Naxalite to Naxalite Maoist India at 2/12/2011 09:02:00 PM

[Naxalite Maoist India] Arindam Chaudhuri on Binayak Sen

Arindam Chaudhari talks about Binayak Sen wearing a Che T-Shirt. :)




Link to Video

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Posted By Cpi Maoist Naxalite to Naxalite Maoist India at 2/02/2011 10:33:00 AM