Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Agnisnan

Timestamp:

Jul 16, 2012, 8:43:11 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

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Agnisnan

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+'''Agnisnan'''
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+aka Ordeal
+1985 186’ col Assamese
+d/p/s Bhabendranath Saikia c Kamal Nayak
+lyr/m Tarun Goswami
+lp Malaya Goswami, Biju Phukan, Arun Nath,
+Kashmiri Barua, Sanjib Hazarika, Ananda
+Mohan Bhagawati, Arun Guha-Thakurta, Nilu
+Chakraborty, Indra Bania, Ashok Deka
+
+
+The Assamese physicist and writer Saikia used
+one of his own novels, set in 30s feudalcolonial
+Assam, for this extended film about a
+woman’s emancipation. The well-off and
+British-supported rice mill owner Mohikanta
+(Phukan) is married to the quiet Menoka
+(Goswami) and has four children by her. When
+Mohikanta takes a second wife, Kiran (Barua),
+and makes her pregnant, the angry Menoka
+starts a secret affair with the village thief,
+Madan, and becomes pregnant. Unaware of his
+double standards, Mohikanta feels betrayed
+and demands an explanation for Menoka’s
+refusal to have sexual relations with him ever
+since Kiran moved into their home. Menoka
+simply points out that since Mohikanta had
+expected her to put up with his infidelities, so
+he must accept hers. The final confrontation
+between husband and wife, set in the rice mill,
+provides an unusual ending to this tale about
+patriarchal hypocrisy as the initially submissive
+Menoka self-confidently affirms her right to
+fully equal status with her husband.
+
+[[Film]]