Janani's Juliet @Kriti Film Club (17-23rd July) and a Conversation @Truth and Reconciliation Weekend (23rd July)


INVITATION FROM KRITI FILM CLUB


Inter-Caste/ Faith/ Class/ Gender/ et al : Uniform Civil Code
a Kriti Film Club screening and Conversation @Truth and Reconciliation Week

Please click on links for details and registration.

17th to 26th July 2021: Watch Janani's Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar (film will be available to watch here!)

23rd July 2021, 6-8 pm: Join a conversation with filmmaker Pankaj Rishi Kumar (Janani's Juliet), Asif Iqbal and Akanksha Sharma (Dhanak), moderated by Aanchal Kapur (Kriti Film Club)

JANANI'S JULIET
(Tamil with English Subtitles/ 53mins/ 2019)
by Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Producer: PSBT

About the Film: 
Kausalya lost her husband (Shankar), when they were attacked by her own family. They had married against their families wishes. Deeply disturbed by a spate of honor killings in India, Indianostrum, a Pondicherry based theatre group sets out to introspect the implications of caste, class and gender. They adapt Shakespeare's ‘Romeo and Juliet’. What emerges in the process is a critical reflection and commentary of the contemporary Indian society where love struggles to survive.

Awards:
  • India's Official entry to the Oscar's
  • Human Rights Prize at Fine Arts Film Festival- Venice, California, USA
  • Best Long Documentary Prize at IDSFFK, Trivandrum, India
  • Best Film, Signs Film Festival, Thrissur, India
  • Best Film, Panchjanyam Film Festival, India
  • Satyajit Ray Golden Award for the Best Documentary, South Asia Film Festival
  • Mrinal Sen Golden Award for the Best Direction in Documentary, South Asia Film Festival
  • Best Film, Bollywoodindies Film Festival, India
About the Filmmaker and Speakers: 
After graduating from the FTII Pune, India, in 1992, with a specialisation in Film Editing, Pankaj Rishi Kumar was assistant editor on Shekhar Kapur's ‘Bandit Queen’. After editing numerous documentaries and TV serials, he made his first film Kumar Talkies. Subsequently, Pankaj has become a one-man crew producing, directing, shooting and editing his own films under the banner of Kumar Talkies. These include Pather Chujaeri, The Vote, Gharat, 3 Men and a Bulb, Punches n Ponytails, Seeds of Dissent, In God’s Land. Since 2012 he has been actively documenting in Pondicherry (a former French colony). Pankaj’s films have been screened at film festivals all over the world. Pankaj is a visiting faculty at Whistling Woods International, and lectures at FTII and SRFTI. He is a regular mentor with Let’sdoc - A DRI initiative, Kolkata. (kumartalkies.blogspot.com)

Asif Iqbal is co-founder of Dhanak an organisation of interfaith/caste couples. The organisation works of the issues of forced marriage and honour crime. He has also worked on the issues of human rights with several sangathans based in remotest parts of country. He also is associated with child rights and is an ex-member of Child Welfare Committee, South Delhi.

Akanksha Sharma is a Dhanak's member since the last six years. After going through the struggle to get hitched to her beau, she also got hitched to the fight for Right to Choose. She works as a Program Manager in a leading MNC and likes to read during her 'me-time'.

This is an educational initiative of a not-for-profit organisation 'Kriti team'. We screen and share documentary films on development, environment and socially relevant issues, in an effort to positively influence mindsets and behaviour towards creating an equitous, just and peaceful world. We also curate issue based film festivals and organise documentary film shows online, in neighbourhoods, communities, schools, colleges or institutions on request and otherwise. The Kriti Film Club has been screening documentaries regularly and independently (without any funding) in Delhi NCR since 2000, in Mumbai since 2019, and online on www.doculive.in sinch March 2020, to promote 'thought-provoking cinema'.

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