Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Nirbachana

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Jul 3, 2012, 4:59:51 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Nirbachana'''
+
+1994 107’ col Oriya
+d/sc Biplab Roy Choudhury pc NFDC
+st Prafulla Roy dial Hrishikesh Panda c Raju
+Mishra m Shantanu Mahapatra
+lp Bhim Singh, Bidyut Prava Patnaik, Durlabh
+Chandra Singh, Sangeeta Dutta, Sasmita 
+
+
+Roy Choudhury’s savagely ironic allegory of
+rural politics in Orissa. The villagers of
+Mankonal, surrounded by rapidly depleting
+stone quarries, are offered Rs 100 for every
+vote they give the local Zamindar who is
+contesting a State election. Villagers Bharasa
+and Laxmi, desperately in need of extra money,
+‘adopt’ a terminally ill beggar and attempt to
+keep him alive until the election so that his
+vote may fetch them the extra money they
+require for their son’s marriage. The old man’s
+condition deteriorates and they have to carry
+him through the quarries to hospital. On the
+way, they blunder onto a dynamite blast which
+blows the old man to bits. The film
+demonstrates an exemplary control over its
+narrative as quarry explosions rend the air,
+throwing up continuous clouds of acrid dust,
+and picture cut-outs of the politician-landlord
+weave through the lives of the villagers like
+grotesquely surreal comments both on the
+bizarre situation as well as on the forms of
+realism usually deployed by Indian film for
+these themes. The film was briefly denied a
+censorship certificate, apparently because of an
+unintended physical resemblance between its
+fictional politician and the then-Information &
+Broadcasting Minister.
+
+[[Film]]