Screening at Vikalp

From: The Vikalp Archive <vikalp.archive@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:13:44 +0530
Subject: April@Vikalp@Alliance: The Other Side of Courtship - 2 Films

VIKALP@ALLIANCE PRESENTS

THE OTHER SIDE OF COURTSHIP: TWO FILMS ABOUT LOVE, MARRIAGE AND SOME
THINGS IN BETWEEN

SHORT FILM: CHAL CHALIYE
dir: TANMAY AGARWAL ­ THE DIRECTOR WILL BE PRESENT

DOCUMENTARY: NOTES ON MAN CAPTURE
dir: NANDINI BEDI
.

PLEASE COME AND CIRCULATE WIDELY!


WHEN: APRIL 19, MONDAY, 6.30 pm

WHERE: ALLIANCE FRANCAISE , Theosophy Hall, 40, New Marine Lines, Next
to Nirmala Niketan, TEL:2203 6187

ABOUT THE FILMS

SHORT FILM: CHAL CHALIYE
Dir: TANMAY AGARWAL

Not the hour before, not a night before, but a comfortable fortnight
before Shreya is to get married, Rudra is suddenly at her doorstep
asking for love. The two step out of the house for a walk to the woods
behind the suburb. They face and evade love in this beautiful dry
garden, until the evening forces her to answer the question. Do they
go together or do they part? The film is a relaxed study of the
anxieties of the boy and the girl over the course of a day. They try
to recede further and further into a private space out in the public,
to find the answer to the eternal question, ³Why do we keep saying no,
when we want to say yes?²


DOCUMENTARY: NOTES ON MAN CAPTURE
Dir: Nandini Bedi
50 minutes. Garo with English subtitles

It is a truth (not very widely) accepted that to capture a man, then
immediately marry him, you need a chicken.
But not because the way to a man¹s heart is through his stomach.
The Garo Hills, an extension of the Eastern Himalayas. When the cotton
is in bloom, it is the season for man capture. Men from one village
capture men from another for marriage to their unmarried sisters,
cousins and nieces. If a man accepts the marriage, he moves into the
village of his wife and shares her property. And if he doesn't?
Ratmi, a young, single mother wants to get married. The film follows
the process of capturing a man for her as it observes the players
behind Ratmi¹s marriage in 2000/2001 and again in 2006.
As we follow Ratmi¹s story, some questions emerge for us. What does
India look like as it is in some types of unseen fringes, where power
shifts back and forth from individual to group, man to woman, the
person behind the camera and the people in front of it? This film
about the India that we don¹t see, reverses some of the dominant
images we see all the time about caste, gender and difference

Look Ma No Triangle

Chal Chaliye received a clear U/A certificate from CBFC. That means that the triangle on the certificate will be absent and the shots in the film will be present.
I will like to thank all of you for your support. Hope to see you at the screenings.