[Reader-list] Screening and Discussion of Rahul Roy's 'The Factory' at JNU

[Ishita Tiwary]

School of Arts and Aesthetics

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Presents

Rahul Roy

with his Documentary

*The Factory*


Synopsis: 147 workers of India’s biggest automobile manufacturing company
Maruti Suzuki are on trial for the murder of a senior manager and 2500
workers dismissed. It has been two and a half years and the case drags on.
Their bail application has been rejected by the courts. On each hearing
they are led to the court room by the police while families line up to
catch a glimpse. The defense lawyers plan their strategy in the court
canteen. Justice seems a dim hope. The film follows the fate of the under
trial workers, families and dismissed workers to investigate the underbelly
of industrial conflict and the elusive nature of justice.



About the Director: Rahul Roy’s films have travelled across the globe to
various documentary film festivals and have won several prestigious awards.
His films explore the themes of masculinity and gender relations against
the larger background of communalism, labour, class identities and urban
spaces. Besides film making Roy has been researching and writing on
masculinities. His graphic book on masculinities titled ‘A Little Book on
Men’ was recently published by Yoda Press.

A Discussion with the Director will follow the screening


At the SAA Auditorium

Friday, February 5, 2016

5.00 pm.

Tea will be served at 4.30

All are Welcome