Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Something Like A War

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Jun 28, 2012, 5:40:51 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Something Like A War'''''''''
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+1991 63’ col English
+d Deepa Dhanraj pc D&N Prod, Equal Media
+c Navroze Contractor
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+Noted feminist documentary addressing the
+Indian government’s controversial family
+planning programme. After the infamous
+Sanjay Gandhi-led forced sterilisation
+programmes during the Emergency (1975-6),
+the programme ran into trouble again
+promoting injectable contraception, hormonal
+implants and abortifacient pills, often on the
+recommendation of international population
+control agencies dominated by multinational
+corporate interests. The film concentrates on
+the experience of the women subjected to the
+programme, contrasting this with the official
+discourse and the well-known governmentsponsored
+advertising jingles (‘small family
+happy family’). The women speak with, for
+Indian film, unprecedented candour. The rapid
+TV-style editing sometimes undoes the fine
+camerawork but the film manages to convey
+that the invocation of Western-style notions of
+individual freedom in the very different context
+of Indian women’s lived conditions can be
+oppressive, esp. when women are socially
+denied the right to control their fertility and do
+not have access to appropriate post-operative
+health care systems.
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+[[Documentary]]