Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Holi

Timestamp:

Jul 10, 2012, 4:35:39 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

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Holi

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+'''Holi'''
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+
+aka Festival of Fire
+1983 116’(120’) col Hindi
+d/co-sc/co-lyr Ketan Mehta pc Film Unit, Neo
+Film Associates st/co-sc/co-dial Mahesh
+Elkunchwar based on his play
+co-dial/co-lyr Hriday Lani c Jehangir
+Choudhury m Rajat Dholakia
+lp Sanjeev Gandhi, Manoj Pandya, Rahul
+Ranade, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Amole Gupte,
+Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval,
+Shriram Lagoo, Aamir Khan, Mohan Gokhale
+
+
+Mehta’s first Hindi film addresses the increasing
+lumpenisation of university students featuring
+scenes of victimisation reminiscent of Volker
+Schloendorff’s Der junge Toerless (1966).
+Forced to attend a lecture on India’s cultural
+heritage while on holiday, the boys rebel. The
+violence gradually escalates into a major battle
+with the authorities as the colourful and
+anarchistic pre-Vedic spring festival, Holi, turns
+into a menacing festival of fire with burning
+school furniture. The college principal induces
+a boy to denounce the leaders of the rebellion.
+The informer is publicly humiliated and is
+forced to commit suicide. Mehta decided to
+shoot almost all the scenes in sequence shots,
+often using a crab-dolly or a steadycam, and
+using synch sound rather than playback or
+post-synched sound (in spite of the
+complicated songs and the musical
+accompaniment). The film’s enthusiastic and
+hallucinatory participation in student violence
+(of which it is supposedly critical) allows it to
+move away from its original political thrust,
+conveying existential despair instead. The film
+enjoyed a cult audience in New Delhi for a
+short period.
+
+[[Film]]