Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Tamas

Timestamp:

Jul 23, 2012, 6:56:14 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Tamas

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+'''Tamas'''
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+
+aka Darkness
+1987 297’ col Hindi
+d/sc/co-c Govind Nihalani pc Blaze Ents
+st Bhishm Sahni’s novel co-c V. K. Murthy
+m Vanraj Bhatia
+lp Om Puri, Deepa Sahi, Dina Pathak, Bhishm
+Sahni, Amrish Puri, Uttara Baokar, Surekha
+Sikri, Saeed Jaffrey, Ila Arun, K.K. Raina
+
+
+Nihalani’s controversial five-hour TV series
+deals with the Partition of India and led to
+major communal confrontations when the
+Hindu BJP organisations threatened to set TV
+stations afire and caused rioting in Hyderabad
+and Bombay. Based on one of Hindi author
+Bhishm Sahni’s best-known recent novels, the
+epic tale is seen mainly through the eyes of a
+tanner named Nathu (Om Puri) and his
+pregnant wife Karmo (Sahi). An effort to cause
+a communal conflict (one of the commonest
+strategies is to place a dead pig in a mosque)
+escalates into the pre-1947 conflagration
+throughout Punjab. The film effectively lumps
+together the activities of all the various political
+groups involved, including the British colonial
+powers and Hindu as well as Muslim
+communal fronts, which it contrasts with
+individual expressions of human concern that
+serve sometimes to dilute a notoriously
+complex historical episode into no more than a
+conflict between common good and politically
+motivated bad.
+
+[[Film]]