[Reader-list] Screening final short films of SACAC Film & Video Production batch, 2010-11/ Screening reminder: Izzatnagari ki Asabhya Betiyaan - Directed by Nakul Singh Sawhney

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Saturday



Time

4:00pm until 7:00pm





Where


Hall of Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi






Description


Film details:

Rusted Memories : 15mins

10 year old Rijul witnesses the murder of his step-father by the gardener, Puran. Years later he returns to recollect a decayed childhood, made special by the memory of a crime, from the bungalow soon to be sold.
Cast:
Keshav Sadhna
Yash Dewan
Dinesh Ahlawat
Jyoti Prasad
Rajiv Oberoi

Crew:
Screenplay and Direction: Neetole Mitra
Edit: Neetole Mitra and Akanksha Gupta
Camera: Chanchal Thapa
Production: Neetole Mitra and Abhishek Yadu
Colourist: Rajan Kumar Singh
Sound Design: Rajan Kumar Singh
Sound Recording: Varun Sahni

Story based on Ruskin Bond's short story "A Job Well Done"

The Ticket : 20mins

Imran is a 10 year old kid who picks rags for living. One day he finds a shiny red card amongst his trash. That red card is a pass to a nearby Multiplex.
Cast:
Sabir Alam
Mrinal Goyal ‘Honey’
Shivani Govind

Crew:
Writing and Direction: Ravi S Alok
Edit: Arvin Bhaskar
Camera: Karan Thapliyal
Music: Vivek Abhishek
Production: Abhishek Yadu
Colourist: Pradeep Gosain
Sound: Varun Sahni
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Screening reminder: Izzatnagari ki Asabhya Betiyaan - Directed by Nakul Singh Sawhney


Newsclick and Magic Lantern Foundation 

invite you to the screening of 

Izzatnagari ki Asabhya Betiyaan 
(The Immoral Daughters in the Land of Honour)


Directed by- Nakul Singh Sawhney


A documentary film on the resistance against "honour" crimes and Khap Panchayats.


Trailer of the film- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oP4aw_lAlc


Date: 15 January, 2012
Venue: Auditorium, Alliance Francaise, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Time: 6 pm

Duration: 93 minutes (English Subtitled)




“Those who threaten our traditional code” , says Jai Singh Ahlawat, the Head of
the Ahlawat Khap. “… Are the educated youngsters, the Dalit officers, who want everything
to be equal… And, of course, our “asabhya betiyan”, (immoral daughters) who
imagine equality like animals and want our age-old customs to die out…”

Voices like Jai Singh Ahlwats’s belong to the patriarchal and casteist pillars of a feudal society -- the
Khaps; those who oppose “self-choice” marriages and deny young people the right to love.

In Izzatnagari ki Asabhya Betiyaan, we have the stories of five young Jat women who dared to
resist. These women take on take on the powerful Khaps and in the process confront “honour”
crimes, injustice and social boycotts.

There’s Seema of Haryana, whose brother Manoj and his wife Babli were killed for marrying
in the same gotra. Seema and her mother are fighting for justice in the courts against the killers,
though they are pitted against khap panchayats across the region and the political establishment.
There’s Mukesh of Rohtak, who almost became a victim of an “honour” killing herself; how she
fought back and and created a new life for herself. Geetika, a student of Delhi University, directs
a street play on “honour” crimes. She approaches the play keeping in mind her own need to

question the belief systems she was heir to. Monica, a Jat girl, who married Gaurav Saini, 
from Delhi.  Gaurav tells us about Monica's struggle to lead an independent life and the subsequent

 problems their marriage faced since they belonged to different castes. Anjali sees education
as a way to break out of the arranged marriage and domestic life her family wants for her. Her
M.Phil thesis, on honour crimes, is her answer to the voice of tradition.

These multi-narratives of women are intercut with that of the Khaps. Through these stories,
Asabhaya Betiyaan exposes the fissures, hypocrisy and violence in a supposedly modern and
democratic India.