naxalite
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A RIFLE AND A BAG (Dir. NoCut Film Collective, 2020, India/Romania/Italy/Qatar)
What is the price for those who join a political revolution? And what happens once you surrender and attempt to reconcile with a political past? The Naxalite Movement, perhaps one of the most sustained political folk/tribal movements in the global south, is the focus of this brilliantly observed documentary by the NoCut Film Collective of Continue reading
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LAL SALAAM! (Red Salute) – Naxalite Cinema: a Video Essay
A Video Essay on the representation of Naxalism in Indian Cinema from the Past and Present. Continue reading
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APANJAN (Dir. Tapan Sinha, 1968, India)
Before Mrinal Sen and Satyajit Ray responded to the political unrest in Calcutta with their respective treatises on the Naxalite movement, the Bengali film maker Tapan Sinha had already mounted a powerful neo realist critique with his 1968 film Apanjan. All three films that I have mentioned feature a male character, symbolising the Calcutta middle Continue reading
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