MOdi and Saghparivar Buddadeb and CPI(M)....both are same... forsake art !!???
On 4/24/08, your SAVAD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20080428&fname=Film+%28F%29&sid=1 > > Shot At Sight > CPI-M turns film critic, kills festival ............ > Anjali Puri > | e-mail | one page format | feedback: send - read | > A West Bengal government famously intolerant of 'discordant' > voices—from protesters in Nandigram to Taslima Nasreen and Tibetan > freedom fighters—has subjected a central government department to an > extraordinary tantrum over the inclusion of a documentary film on the > Singur agitation in a festival of Indian Panorama films. > > With graphic footage of lathicharging cops abusing and attacking > villagers, and interviews with peasants, social activists and > economists, Ladly Mukhopadhay's 40-minute film, Whose Land is it > Anyway? is a critique of the Left Front government's acquisition of > 1,000 acres of land for a Tata small car factory in Singur, and its > handling of the agitation that followed in 2006-07. > > The Left's cultural commissars woke up late to the documentary's > inclusion in the film festival. > > The film, cleared by the Central Board of Film Certification in > December '06, was selected for inclusion in the Indian Panorama by an > independent jury of filmmakers. It was screened at the International > Film Festival in Goa last November, along > with other Panorama films and found mention in press reports. > > For some reason, these events seem to have escaped the attention of > the Left Front which only appears to have woken up to the film's > inclusion in the prestigious list when it travelled last month to > Nandan, the state government's film centre in Calcutta (and a regular > haunt of film buff-CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya), as part of a festival > of Indian Panorama films. > > The Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) in Delhi, a wing of the Union > I&B ministry which organises international and other film festivals, > (including Whose Land...) sent synopses of all the Panorama films to > Nandan, in advance of the Calcutta festival. > > Even from a cursory reading of the synopsis, it's pretty clear that > Whose Land... is far from being a paean for the state government's > actions in Singur. However, it appears that this, too, went unnoticed > by the cultural commissars of the Left Front. > > It was only after the screening on March 26 that hell broke loose. > Nandan took the extraordinary step of "suspending" the rest of the > festival. And its ceo Nilanjan Chatterjee followed up that very > afternoon with an officious fax demanding explanations from a startled > DFF. His phraseology ("I am directed", etc) suggested that he was > writing at the behest of his political bosses. > > In his fax, Nilanjan took the DFF to task for "the content of a film > (that) directly violates the ethical principles of centre-state > relationship". "I am directed to state that it is highly objectionable > to include such a controversial film in the Indian Panorama package," > he stated. "As such," he continued, "I am directed to request you to > kindly state the reason for the inclusion of such a film in the said > package". And then came the clincher: "I am further directed to inform > you that all the screenings earmarked on 27 March, 2008, will remain > suspended till a satisfactory reply is received from your office." > > By the time the DFF replied with a statement narrating the facts of > the case, the threat had been executed. Calcutta audiences were > deprived of watching even Panorama films that did not offend the Left > Front government—as punishment for watching one that did. > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > + Savad Rahman > Subeditor > Madhyamam Daily > Kochi,Kerala > India-682018 > cell:9995431420 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I am only one, but still I am one; > I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; > And just because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the > something that I can do." -- Helen Keller > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
