*Dear friends Try to make it for this film. Its a very well made film
There is a screening of the film 'Gabhricha Paus' - The Damned Rain directed by Satish Manwar on the 11th of May at 6.00pm as part of ANNUAL HABITAT FILM FESTIVAL* *at the Indian Habitat Centre.* *Gabhricha Paus* (English: "The Damned Rain") is a Marathi film about the prevalence of suicide among farmers in Maharashtra,<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabhricha_Paus#cite_note-0> Some-regions in the state of Maharashtra, India are infamous for the number of suicides of farmers that they account for everyday. ‘Gabhricha Paus’ or ‘The Damned Rain’ is the story of a lone farmer and his family. Kisna, our farmer like many others in India or for that matter, in many parts of the world is trying as hard as he has always been. But so many things, including nature are stacked against him. Kisna’s family is trying in its own simple way to please him and avert the inevitable. Kisna’s,wife is convinced .of the fact that he is contemplating ending his life and hence ropes in their 6 year old son, albeit against his wish and comprehension to be with his father all the time and report any irregularities in his behavior. Kisna, meanwhile, is unaware or perhaps not bothered that he is being watched as a possible candidate for suicide.. Kisna is doing only what he knows best, toil hard, geta crop, pray that the rains will be on his side at least this year, sell his product and prepare for the next season. The question though, is how long can he keep trying, with little or almost no profits to show for his efforts. This is a story about simple aspirations; the undying urge in the human race...to live and to live against all odds. In spite of this basic instinct, these farmers still choose to end their lives and the toll keeps on rising... *The Government of Maharashtra - Sant Tukaram Best International Marathi Film Award went to 'Gabhricha Paus' its world première at the film festival of Pune in India where it was honoured with an award for Best International Marathi language film. The film won applauses at Rotterdam film festival and Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. It also won Chitrapati V Shantaram Puraskar in six categories including best film and best director. Film homepage: http://thedamnedrain.com/main.html Festival schedule: http://www.habitatworld.com/events-film.asp Try to make it [?][?] Regards Anil* -- "Sometimes — quite often — the same people who are capable of a radical questioning of, say, economic neo-liberalism or the role of the state, are deeply conservative socially — about women, marriage, sexuality, our so-called 'family values' — sometimes they're so doctrinaire that you don't know where the establishment stops and the resistance begins. For example, how many Gandhian/Maoist/ Marxist Brahmins or upper caste Hindus would be happy if their children married Dalits or Muslims, or declared themselves to be gay? Quite often, the people whose side you're on, politically, have absolutely no place for a person like you in their social, cultural or religious imagination.That's a knotty problem politically radical people can come at you with the most breathtakingly conservative social views and make nonsense of the way in which you have ordered your world and your way of thinking about it and you have to find a way of accommodating these contradictions within your worldview." -Arundhati Roy ANIL Anil Tharayath Varghese New Delhi-110058 INDIA Mobile - 09971170738 email - [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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