DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION "ASLI AZAADI ( True Freedom )" at The Attic - 13th August, 2007

Movie Info : ‘ASLI AZAADI’ (True Freedom)
Instead of the state celebrations that will take place marking the occasion of India’s 60th anniversary as a free nation on August 15th, see this moving oral history of some of the women who participated in this struggle. The film is infused with the music of the times and is shot at some of the sites famous for their association with this history. Meet some of the 1,500 volunteers of the Rani Jhansi regiment, the first all-women’s military wing in the world. “Defend until the last man and the last bullet” was Netaji’s evocation to his troops and the stories related by surviving members of this regiment speak of their courage and tenacity through battle, bombing raids and interrogations. Meet also some of the volunteers who participated in Mahatma Gandhi’s “satyagraha”, described in his own words as “the vindication of truth not by infliction of suffering on the opponents but on one’s self”. “If it is to be blood that is shed, let it be our own”. Meet also the women of the Bengal famine, Partition and the womens movement in contemporary India.
The film will be followed by a discussion with the director.

Sagari Chhabra is a writer, poet & film-director. She has written and directed fifteen documentary films and one fiction film, winning five national and international awards. Her work primarily centres around social issues; ‘Global Warming’ (United Nations World Food Day award) ‘Now I Will Speak’ (on violence against women - awarded by the International Association of Women In Radio & Television & NIFA awards of excellence in production & direction)– ‘Tatva’ (Essence) – (a fiction film about a woman in search for her identity in contemporary India, awarded a National award & selection in Indian Panorama) ‘Hunger In The Time Of Plenty’ (starvation deaths at the time of food surplus), ‘The Word and the World’ – on Indian writers and several others. The films have been screened at festivals in Oslo, Copenhagen, Miami, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Kuala Lumpur and several other places across the world.

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