Hi,
I watched the movie by http://www.ruchiraarts.com/index.htm yesterday which I
had got from Assam 2007 meet at DC as DVD for $20 (Rs 800) .
Quite surprisingky the movie started with a debate in the city hall between two
lovers about whether to celebrate Valentine's Day or not. The guy won by saying
that what one feels one should say it everyday and not earmark just one day for
it.
Later they meet near a huge waterbody. They go to the govt officials to get
permits to start printing business but the officials advise that they pay the
required bribes and the officials would repay them in kind by getting them
business etc.
The idealist guy (son of a poor school master) refuses and goes back to his
village alongwith the girl. Later he is lured into joining the
"revolutionaries" under the pretense of getting opportunity to give interview
from their point of view to a Western journalist couple . In reality the
couple had been kidnapped when they had come looking for the grave of the
woman's grandfather who had settled there.
Later the rebel leader is seen communicating with a Christian church priest
(his partner in supplying arms etc) in a remote place and that church become
the final scene - the place where all rebels die including the priest , the
rebel leader and even the film hero. The girl who had somehow gone alongwith a
rebel to find the hero is there to see the hero die - a disillusioned guy who
himself had become a virtual prisoner -- there was no escape once you joined
the rebels. The girl was able to persuade a rebel to take her along since that
rebel had snared a underaged teenager and made her pregnant and came to visit
her and was persuaded by that pregnant girl to take the heroine in search
of the hero in the rebels' lair. She kills off a couple of rebels when they try
to rape her in their camp and runs to the church - the final scene's place.
More here from the website:
http://www.ruchiraarts.com/index.htm
JAATINGAA Ityaadi
(Jaatingaa et al .
)
[Feature film in Assamese ; Color ; 35mm ; 1:1.66 ; 124
minutes; Dolby SR ;UA certification on 2nd November, 2006]
The Philosophy :
Love, the most sublime of human emotions, has its myriad dimensions. Concern
for one may also transcend into concern for humanity in a crisis ridden
situation.
The SYNOPSIS :
Manab and Reeta, from two neighbouring villages, have just completed
university education. Attached from the childhood, they are trying to chart out
a life of their own. But an idealist Manab, being frustrated with the system
goes back to his home in the village while Reeta carries on the effort to set
up a business.At about the same time, Jack & Pauline, recently married, come to
Assam, a North Eastern state of India. Paulines grand father, Mr. Clemence,
had set up a tea garden here, long back. He never went back to England and died
here. Pauline developed a curiosity to know what had fascinated her grand
father to stay back in this distant place. She convinced Jack to make their
honeymoon trip to Assam to discover the charm (or the magic) of this place. But
on their way to Mr. Clemences tea garden, they are kidnapped by an extremist
outfit.The extremists, finding it difficult to communicate with the English
speaking couple look for a suitable person. They identify
Manab who was too eager to be a part of the change, supposedly being brought
about by the revolutionary outfit. Manab goes over to them at the first
opportunity. But once in the jungles, he discovers things to the contrary. The
agony of the hapless couple moves him try to work to free them.In the mean
time, the extremists kill Dhan, Reetas brother. On coming home from the city,
after Dhans murder, Reeta learns that Manab has gone over to the
Revolutionaries (!). She is concerned because she knows Manab. She agonises at
the all pervading tentacles of extremism and sets out to locate and bring him
back. But...
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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