Feb 03 2024 to Feb 03 2024 10 a.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

218 min | Hindi, Marathi, English with English subtitles | 2018
The film will be screened in two parts, with a 30 minute interval.

Camera and Sound: Anand Patwardhan, Simantini Dhuru
Production, Direction and Editing: Anand Patwardhan
Production Assistance: Simantini Dhuru, Shrujana Shridhar, Barkha Naik, Utkarsh, Shashwat, Shashi Mehta

Reason takes us to a macrocosm – India, the world’s largest democracy. Its eight chapters are a chilling account of how murder and mind control are being applied to systematically dismantle secular democracy in a country which once aspired not just to Liberty, Egalite and Fraternity, but to lead the post-war world out of its mindless spiral of violence and greed.

Those who witnessed the scientific spirit fostered by the Enlightenment would scarcely believe that over 400 years later, Faith would still have an upper hand over Reason.

Today as technologically advanced nations still debate the merits of Creationism and Evolution, the developing world falls prey to blind faith and religious war.

Everywhere privatisation and a rush to corner ever-depleting natural resources has catapulted corporates and their extreme right wing storm-troopers into power.

With the collapse of egalitarian values, democracy itself is under siege. That we, the temporarily comfortable, rarely notice, is because an embedded media controls both information and entertainment. We see what they want us to see and quickly tire of seeing anything that matters.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Anand Patwardhan and author, GN Devy. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

This is the fourth film in our three day retrospective of Anand Patwardhan’s work.