Nandini Bedi’s documentary Notes on Man Capture will be screening in Delhi and the director will be present at the screening.
Date: Monday 26th July 2010, 6:30 pm
Venue: India International Centre
Main Auditorium, 40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003
Entry free, all are welcome
NOTES ON MAN CAPTURE
Directed by Nandini Bedi
English (subtitled), 43 min, 2008, India
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 man’s 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 Ratmi’s marriage in 2000/2001 and again in 2006. As we follow Ratmi’s 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 don’t see, reverses some of the dominant images we see all the time about caste, gender and difference.