Anand Patwardhan's docu on Dalit activists wins best film award
Deepti Khera
Mumbai, October 10, 2011
Nine years after the path-breaking documentary War and Peace, Anand
Patwardhan, one of India's controversial filmmakers, is back with a
documentary on Dalit music and activism - Jai Bhim Comrade. Last week,
his film was awarded the Ram Bahadur Trophy for the Best Film at the
Film Southasia 2011
festival held at Kathmandu.
Fourteen years in the making, the three-hour-and-20 minute-long film
explores the history of Dalit activism in Maharashtra in the aftermath
of the killing of 10 activists in Mumbai in 1997. The Bhim in the film
refers to the Indian constitutionalist and thinker Bhimrao Ambedkar.
"Jai Bhim Comrade is close to me for personal reasons. The trigger of
my film was a friend, Vilas Ghogre, a poet and a musician who hung
himself in 1997 when the police shot dead 10 unarmed Dalits in
Mumbai," said Patwardhan "The film covers that moment and goes on to
explore events that unfolded in the aftermath. It is an overview of
Indian history seen through the prism of caste and class and an
exploration of the music of protest."
Known for his political documentaries, he had refused to direct Bandit
Queen, preferring to work with real people. While many of his films
have faced long legal battles, which he has invariably won, Patwardhan
hopes that Jai Bhim Comrade that upholds the spirit of the Indian
constitution should not face any delays.
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