Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Daasi 1988

Timestamp:

Jul 29, 2012, 5:57:53 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

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Daasi 1988

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+'''Daasi'''
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+aka Bonded Woman
+1988 94’ col Telugu
+d/s/m B. Narasinga Rao pc Little India
+c A.K. Bir
+lp Archana, Roopa, Bhopal Reddy, Sidappa
+Naidu, Shilpa
+
+
+Political melodrama set in the 20s addressing
+the practice of purchasing slave girls, often
+given as dowry in a marriage, by zamindar
+families under the rule of the Nizam of
+Hyderabad. Kamakshi (Archana), a daasi
+bonded to Jayasimha Rao, becomes pregnant
+by her owner. At the command of the
+zamindar’s self-indulgent and childless wife,
+Kamakshi is forced to have an abortion. The
+film uses a neo-expressionist style e.g. the dark
+servants’ quarters, the drumbeats announcing
+the pregnancy of the landlord’s sister
+counterpointed with the daasi’s screams as the
+midwife terminates her pregnancy, etc.
+
+[[Film]]