New York Screening of Morality TV and the Loving Jehad

A THRILLING TALE AT I-VIEW ENGENDERED FILM FESTIVAL

To watch a trailer of the film:
http://parodevi.com/moralitytv/moralitytv.html

Date: 19th September, Sunday
Time:– 6.15 PM (in the 4-7 slot)
Venue: TRIBECA CINEMAS, 54 Varick Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 941-2001

For more details : http://www.engendered.org/iview_eventsschedule2010.html

MORALITY TV AUR LOVING JEHAD: EK MANOHAR KAHANI
(Morality TV and The Loving Jehad: A thrilling tale)
(31 MIN, Colour, DV with English subtitles), 2007

About the Film:
In the winter of 2005 Indians switched on their TV sets to watch yet another “breaking news” story, but one which shocked them. In the town of Meerut, police officers, mostly women, swooped down on lovers in a park and began to beat them up. Along with them they took photographers and news cameramen with the promise of an exclusive sting operation.

What is the story of this news story? The film looks outside the frames that weave the frenetic tapestry of Breaking News on India’s news channels to uncover a town’s complex dynamics – the fear of love, the constant scrutiny and control of women’s mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, caste brutalization and feudal equations.

Assuming the tone of pulp fiction and tabloid features it examines the legacy of this kind of story telling, from the relishing accounts of true crime magazines like Manohar Kahaniyan to the double morality of pulp detective fiction to the tabloid news on Indian TV, to unfold a thrilling but disturbing tale of it’s own.

As the salacious media frenzy around violent events takes on ever more unscrupulous forms,becoming a fatally fascinating violence of its own, the story of the film becomes all the more relevant today.

Credits:
Producer: PSBT
Director and Writer: Paromita Vohra
Camera: Avijit Mukul Kishore
Editing: Sankalp Meshram
Sound: Samina Mishra
Music: Chirantan Bhatt
Narrator: Lovleen Mishra

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