Nisha Pahuja’s Academy Award-nominated documentary, To Kill A Tiger, currently streaming on Netflix, is a tale of the unrelenting courage and unwavering courage of a father seeking justice for his young daughter, who has been raped by three boys from his village. The milieu of this discomforting account of moral rightness is set in a space entrenched in misogynistic practices. Hence, violence against women is tragically a common and normal occurrence and exposes a disturbing gender bias ingrained within societal norms. The troubling reality that comes into focus is how shielding the perpetrators from the people of the village becomes a liability rather than ensuring justice for the victim. Amidst this suffocating atmosphere, the tale of how an individual lacking economic resources combats various human and judicial obstacles is a tale of an oppressed, with humble origins against a fight with a much stronger adversary. There is a conviction,...
- 3/16/2024
- by Dipankar Sarkar
- Talking Films
If a picture paints a thousand words, then Kiran, a young girl of thirteen and something, is a tortured artist. In former social worker-cum-filmmaker Nisha Pahuja's latest, an unrelenting light is shone upon the hapless sufferers of sexual assault, in a pulse-racing documentary that delves into the deep end of contempt for victims such as Kiran. A tour-de-force that challenges the boundaries of traditionally unspoken laws.
To Kill a Tiger is screening at Docuseek
As the dust settles in an almost sepia-like quality, it paints a picture of distress that looms across the screen, bringing a village in the east Indian state of Jharkhand into the new morning. The camera pans to a young girl combing her luscious locks and then braiding them into intricate knots, much like how recent events have tangled her life beyond recognition. The facts… unravel between dramatic closeups of her father, Ranjit, and invites...
To Kill a Tiger is screening at Docuseek
As the dust settles in an almost sepia-like quality, it paints a picture of distress that looms across the screen, bringing a village in the east Indian state of Jharkhand into the new morning. The camera pans to a young girl combing her luscious locks and then braiding them into intricate knots, much like how recent events have tangled her life beyond recognition. The facts… unravel between dramatic closeups of her father, Ranjit, and invites...
- 1/23/2024
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
The rare documentary that opens not just with a content warning, but with a request not to share identifying images of its child subject, To Kill a Tiger is a heavy but necessary work about the legalese and cultural attitudes surrounding sexual violence in rural India. The Oscar-shortlisted doc from New Delhi-born director Nisha Pahuja is a powerful and risky example of the vitality of modern nonfiction filmed in South Asia. It joins recent films like “All That Breathes,” “Against the Tide,” “While We Watched” and “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” which fill the narrative gaps too often left by mainstream Indian fiction, while adopting — and in many ways, re-invigorating — the visual language of traditional drama.
Much of the film follows Ranjit, the father of a 13-year-old survivor of sexual assault, as he searches for justice for his daughter in their village in the eastern state of Jharkhand. However, the...
Much of the film follows Ranjit, the father of a 13-year-old survivor of sexual assault, as he searches for justice for his daughter in their village in the eastern state of Jharkhand. However, the...
- 12/29/2023
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Variety Film + TV
On the surface, Nisha Pahuja’s “To Kill a Tiger” doesn’t look that different from any other documentary set in rural India. The visual palette is bright yet rustic. The characters, real figures, speak a thick East Indian dialect of Hindi, take pride in their community, and allow cameras into their lives.
But the award-winning film, executive produced by Dev Patel and Mindy Kaling, along with the National Film Board of Canada, does what so much media focused on social change cannot: It goes right to the source. “To Kill a Tiger” is about one family seeking justice for the sexual assault of their 13-year-old daughter — but as the legal battles wears on, the documentary roots out the societal structures and collective thinking that find such brutal crimes pervasive and largely unreported in the world’s largest democracy.
“To Kill a Tiger” opens with the survivor’s father, Ranjit,...
But the award-winning film, executive produced by Dev Patel and Mindy Kaling, along with the National Film Board of Canada, does what so much media focused on social change cannot: It goes right to the source. “To Kill a Tiger” is about one family seeking justice for the sexual assault of their 13-year-old daughter — but as the legal battles wears on, the documentary roots out the societal structures and collective thinking that find such brutal crimes pervasive and largely unreported in the world’s largest democracy.
“To Kill a Tiger” opens with the survivor’s father, Ranjit,...
- 10/20/2023
- by Proma Khosla
- Indiewire
Films Boutiques has boarded Amr Gamal’s “The Burdened” ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
Slated for the Panorama section, “The Burdened” will be the first Yememi film to play in the official selection of the Berlinale.
The movie takes place in Aden, Yemen, where Isra’a and Ahmed put all their efforts offering a normal life and education to their three young children. When they find out that Isra’a is pregnant again, they have to make difficult decisions guided only by their family’s interest. “The Burdened” stars Khaled Hamdan and Abeer Mohammed.
Gamal previously directed “10 Days before the Wedding” and the series “Last Chance.” “The Burdened” is produced by Mohsen Alkhalifi and Amr Gamal at Adenium Productions, Yemen-based company.
Co-producers are Amjad Abu Alala, Mohammed Alomda at Station Films, Sudan, and Red Sea International Film Festival at Saudi Arabia. The movie was lensed by Mrinal Desai,...
Slated for the Panorama section, “The Burdened” will be the first Yememi film to play in the official selection of the Berlinale.
The movie takes place in Aden, Yemen, where Isra’a and Ahmed put all their efforts offering a normal life and education to their three young children. When they find out that Isra’a is pregnant again, they have to make difficult decisions guided only by their family’s interest. “The Burdened” stars Khaled Hamdan and Abeer Mohammed.
Gamal previously directed “10 Days before the Wedding” and the series “Last Chance.” “The Burdened” is produced by Mohsen Alkhalifi and Amr Gamal at Adenium Productions, Yemen-based company.
Co-producers are Amjad Abu Alala, Mohammed Alomda at Station Films, Sudan, and Red Sea International Film Festival at Saudi Arabia. The movie was lensed by Mrinal Desai,...
- 12/15/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Nainsukh of Guler is now considered one of the most important miniature painters of 18th century India working in the Pahari school of painting. Born to a painter father and younger sibling to a painter brother, Nainsukh would leave his family workshop to go work at the court of Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota, where he would make some of his best and most well-known works for his royal patron. Most of his surviving works are from his time at Jasrota and more often than not, feature Balwant Singh himself. It is therefore no wonder than Amit Dutta’s experimental biographical film, produced by German art historian Eberhard Fischer and the Museum Rietberg Zurich, where a number of Nainsukh paintings are housed, focuses on those years of Nainsukh’s life that he spent at Jasrota under the tutelage of its ruler.
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
- 7/28/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Nainsukh of Guler is now considered one of the most important miniature painters of 18th century India working in the Pahari school of painting. Born to a painter father and younger sibling to a painter brother, Nainsukh would leave his family workshop to go work at the court of Raja Balwant Singh of Jasrota, where he would make some of his best and most well-known works for his royal patron. Most of his surviving works are from his time at Jasrota and more often than not, feature Balwant Singh himself. It is therefore no wonder than Amit Dutta’s experimental biographical film, produced by German art historian Eberhard Fischer and the Museum Rietberg Zurich, where a number of Nainsukh paintings are housed, focuses on those years of Nainsukh’s life that he spent at Jasrota under the tutelage of its ruler.
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
A biography, by its very nature, reenacts scenes from...
- 7/28/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Is this exploitation, or needed documentation of a modern horror that's become all too frequent? It's a Terrorist assault on a restaurant, mall and supermarket complex packed with afternoon shoppers, many of them women and children. The camera coverage includes dozens of surveillance recordings plus cell phone snaps and images taken by a photojournalist who accompanied brave plainclothes police into the killing ground. Meanwhile, dozens of government troops stood by, as the shots rang out from inside. Terror At the Mall DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection / HBO Documentary Films 2014 / Color 1:33 flat full frame / 59 min. Street Date April 28, 2015 available through the WBshop / 19.98 Cinematography Mrinal Desai Film Editor Mark Towns Location Fixer Tom Odula Original Music Chad Hobson Produced and Directed by Dan Reed
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Reality programming has transformed the culture. TV dramas have been supplanted with cheap crime exposés, and professional variety shows have been replaced by interactive amateur talent searches.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Reality programming has transformed the culture. TV dramas have been supplanted with cheap crime exposés, and professional variety shows have been replaced by interactive amateur talent searches.
- 11/21/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Legal Ease: Tamhane’s Frustrating, Numbing Portrait of India’s Legal System
Director Chaitanya Tamhane won Best Film in the Horizons program at the 2014 Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Court, a near two hour procedural documenting the hellish process of India’s legal justice system. An impressive achievement for a first feature on a technical and narrative level, the film is exhausting as it is fascinating, figuring as a prominent and compelling indictment on archaic procedures dictated by the laws of a draconian age. Compelling performances from both professional and non-professional cast members help paint an indelibly human face on the type of predicament generally referred to as Kafkaesque.
Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar) is a 65 year old folk singer arrested for performing a song in public calling for sewer workers to kill themselves. After the body of one such worker is discovered, he is charged with abetting suicide.
Director Chaitanya Tamhane won Best Film in the Horizons program at the 2014 Venice Film Festival for his debut feature, Court, a near two hour procedural documenting the hellish process of India’s legal justice system. An impressive achievement for a first feature on a technical and narrative level, the film is exhausting as it is fascinating, figuring as a prominent and compelling indictment on archaic procedures dictated by the laws of a draconian age. Compelling performances from both professional and non-professional cast members help paint an indelibly human face on the type of predicament generally referred to as Kafkaesque.
Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar) is a 65 year old folk singer arrested for performing a song in public calling for sewer workers to kill themselves. After the body of one such worker is discovered, he is charged with abetting suicide.
- 7/16/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature film Court recently had a world premiere at the coveted Venice Film Festival. The film, that follows a court case in which a folk singer is tried for abetting the suicide of a manhole worker with his inflammatory song, has been acquired by Artscope, the art film label of Paris-based Memento Films.
Tamhane earlier made a short film Six Strands which screened at several film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Slamdance, Edinburgh and Rotterdam.
Bikas Mishra talks to Chaitanya Tamhane about the journey of Court.
How did the journey of Court begin?
I had just finished my short film Six Strands and it was doing the festival rounds. That’s when the idea of Court came to me, in 2011. I’m not a big fan of genre films. But it struck me that I have seen these courtroom dramas which are so articulate and smooth.
Tamhane earlier made a short film Six Strands which screened at several film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Slamdance, Edinburgh and Rotterdam.
Bikas Mishra talks to Chaitanya Tamhane about the journey of Court.
How did the journey of Court begin?
I had just finished my short film Six Strands and it was doing the festival rounds. That’s when the idea of Court came to me, in 2011. I’m not a big fan of genre films. But it struck me that I have seen these courtroom dramas which are so articulate and smooth.
- 9/6/2014
- by Bikas Mishra
- DearCinema.com
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