"Jharu Katha (Broom Stories)" documentary film screening followed by a dialogue at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 3pm on 14th December 2011
Time : 3:00 pm
Event Details : School of Arts & Aesthetics- TPS Forum presents 'Jharu Katha (Broom Stories)' documentary film screening followed by a dialogue.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in remote corners of rural Rajasthan and the by-lanes of Jodhpur city, this documentary film on the broom, directed by Navroze Contractor, engages in conversation with a wide spectrum of broom-makers. Their struggle for livelihood is intersected with different stories of the broom provided by women and ritual attendants of shrines, traders, municipal sweepers and garbage collectors. Through the counterpoint of their voices, the film covers wide ground in opening the contradictory values and belief-systems of the broom.
Steeped in the realities of caste, the broom is both a source of livelihood for millions of people and the repository of traditional knowledge. Even so, it stigmatizes entire communities through its associations with pollution and untouchability. Highlighting the humiliation and robust survival of India’s most downtrodden caste groups, whose hopes are at once catalyzed and complicated by the politics of reservations, Jharu-katha works towards a larger envisioning of waste in urban India. Bleak and terrifying, this vision questions the endurance of the broom and its capacity to reinvent itself in a ceaseless process of change.
The film will be introduced by Rustom Bharucha, who worked on the concept and script of the film.
Drawing on his book Rajasthan: An Oral History – Conversations with Komal Kothari and his curatorial work on the broom featured in Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan, he will provide a brief context on the making of the film and will engage the audience in dialogue after the screening of the film.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Auditorium, School of Arts & Aesthetics ( SAA ) -2, Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU ), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
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Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' & 'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'
Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' & 'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'
Event Details : School of Arts & Aesthetics- TPS Forum presents 'Jharu Katha (Broom Stories)' documentary film screening followed by a dialogue.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in remote corners of rural Rajasthan and the by-lanes of Jodhpur city, this documentary film on the broom, directed by Navroze Contractor, engages in conversation with a wide spectrum of broom-makers. Their struggle for livelihood is intersected with different stories of the broom provided by women and ritual attendants of shrines, traders, municipal sweepers and garbage collectors. Through the counterpoint of their voices, the film covers wide ground in opening the contradictory values and belief-systems of the broom.
Steeped in the realities of caste, the broom is both a source of livelihood for millions of people and the repository of traditional knowledge. Even so, it stigmatizes entire communities through its associations with pollution and untouchability. Highlighting the humiliation and robust survival of India’s most downtrodden caste groups, whose hopes are at once catalyzed and complicated by the politics of reservations, Jharu-katha works towards a larger envisioning of waste in urban India. Bleak and terrifying, this vision questions the endurance of the broom and its capacity to reinvent itself in a ceaseless process of change.
The film will be introduced by Rustom Bharucha, who worked on the concept and script of the film.
Drawing on his book Rajasthan: An Oral History – Conversations with Komal Kothari and his curatorial work on the broom featured in Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan, he will provide a brief context on the making of the film and will engage the audience in dialogue after the screening of the film.
Related Events : Films at Cultural Places | Movies | Talks
"Jharu Katha (Broom Stories)" documentary film screening followed by a dialogue at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 3pm on 14th December 2011
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