Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Mukta

Timestamp:

Jul 3, 2012, 4:57:03 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

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Mukta

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+'''Mukta'''
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+
+aka The Liberated Woman
+1994 154’ col Marathi
+d/s Jabbar Patel pc Sarala Pics p Ashok Mhatre
+dial Sanjay Pawar lyr N.D. Manohar, Jonaci
+Patel c Shankar Bardhan m Anand Modak
+lp Sonali Kulkarni, Avinash Narkar, Shriram
+Lagoo, Reema Lagoo, Vikram Gokhale, Caleb
+Obura Obwatinyka, Madhu Kambikar, Prashant
+Subedar
+
+
+Wordy melodrama suggesting a link between
+the condition of Dalit ‘untouchable’ castes in
+Maharashtra and the lot of African-Americans
+(the Dalit Panther movement in 1970s-80s
+Maharashtra had expressed support for the
+Black Panthers). Mukta (Kulkarni), daughter of
+a US-based Marathi poet (Gokhale), returns to
+her ancestral village to complete her education.
+At university she joins a street theatre group of
+Dalit activists and falls in love with the group’s
+leader (Narkar). The group attacks
+governmental indifference to violence against
+Dalit women and Mukta’s participation
+severely embarasses her uncle, a State Minister
+in the ruling Congress Party. The ‘local’
+problem, posed by Mukta’s Westernised
+liberatedness, escalates into a new dimension
+when her black American friend (Obwatinyka)
+visits her, leading briefly to a love triangle. In
+the end, the divides in the family as Mukta’s
+parents prefer to split the joint family rather
+than curtail her right to decide her own future,
+are mapped onto new political allegiences. The
+unusual twist in the plot comes when the
+American youth accompanies Mukta’s
+grandfather (S. Lagoo) on a pilgrimage to
+Pandharpur, recalling the Marathi Saint poets’
+struggle against caste inequalities, and sings
+black songs while urging the old man to
+recognise the intensely contemporary nature of
+race and caste discrimination.
+
+[[Film]]