Pedestrian Pictures, Visual Search and Peoples’ Solidarity Concern invite you to the screening of the new film
by Anand Patwardhan
Jai Bhim Comrade
(best film Film South asia 2011)
Date: 17th January 2012, Tuesday.
Time: 4:00 pm.
Venue: Mount Carmel College Auditorium,
Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore.
Duration: 200 minutes
About the Film
For well over 2000 years India’s Dalits were abhorred as “untouchables” denied an education and treated as bonded labor. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and returned to India to fight for the emancipation of his people. He drafted the Indian Constitution. He led his followers to discard Hinduism for Buddhism. His legend still spreads through poetry and song.
In 1997 a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with a garland of footwear. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest.
‘Jai Bhim Comrade’ shot over 14 years, follows the music and tradition of reason that Vilas had been a part of.
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