Film screening: Bombay ki Kahani Mumbai ki Zubani - Four films on 1992 riots (Bombay, 13 Jan 2013)

Bombay ki Kahani Mumbai ki Zubani
Closing Event: 13th January 2013
St Xavier’s College Auditorium

Screening of four films from the series 'Remembering 1992' made by
faculty and students of School for Media and Cultural Studies, TISS is
a part of the closing programme. Details of the film below.

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'Remembering 1992 Series'

This series of films from the School of Media and Cultural Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, seeks revisit the city of Mumbai,
twenty years after the communal violence of 1992-93. In a situation
where justice has been elusive and the collective amnesia profound,
the series attempts to remember and reflect on the events of that
tragic period and its aftermath.
Commissioning Editors: Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar, SMCS, TISS

Ek Aakhri Panah (One Last Refuge)

Hindi with English subtitles, 2012, 14.27 mins, Directed by Juanita
Mukhia, Krishna Panchal, Piyush Garud and Tanvi Barge

During December 1992 and January 1993, Muslim communities living in
the city of Mumbai witnessed communal violence within their
localities. As the violence escalated, people moved or shifted to
areas where they felt safer or had family. These resulted in the
expansion of areas like Mumbra and creation of ghettoes across the
city, where communities that share a religion often live together for
a shared sense of security. This film looks at Mumbra and its history
through the eyes of two young Muslim women who work in the Rehnuma
Library. Rehnuma is a space in Mumbra where young women meet to read,
write, co-create and work on issues of women's empowerment.

Flashpoint

English, 2012, 19:22 mins, Directed by Mridula Chari, Gursimran
Khamba, Francis Lohrii and Shivani Gupta

Mohammed Ali Road and Mahim were among the more affected areas during
the riots of 1992-1993. Twenty years later, this film takes the lens
back to those areas to map the middle classes of those areas. Their
lives, though not tangibly afflicted, were nonetheless transformed by
that time enough to reflect in their attitudes towards communalism
today. Prominent writer and journalist Dilip D’Souza, draws these
narratives together as we try to make sense of stereotypes that
persist even today.

Badalte Nakshe (Changing Maps)

Hindi with English subtitles, 24 mins, Directed by Nithila
Kanagasabai, Nitya Menon, Archana Sadar and Likokba

Traversing the tenuous realm of children, memory and the riots, the
film follows Farhana Ashraf, a teacher and a writer in an attempt to
explore the constructed histories of two generations. 20 years after
the riots, how do the people who were children then remember the lived
experience of the riots? Moreover, how do adolescents of the present
generation make meaning of these inherited narratives of violence from
what they hear and see? In an effort to articulate this ongoing
dialogue with the past and present, the film weave these two threads
bringing to the surface erasures, omissions and the ruptures they
entail.

Farooq Versus The State

Hindi/English with English subtitles, 26 mins, Directed by K.P.
Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro

Hari Masjid, Wadala, Mumbai, was the scene of a brutal police attack
on January 10, 1993. Though Farooq Mhapkar was one of the casualties
of indiscriminate police firing, he was charged as a rioter. Farooq
versus The State is the story of Farooq's protracted legal battle
against an unyielding State in pursuit of justice. Through this case,
the film seeks to explore how justice was delayed and denied to the
victims and survivors of the 1992-93 communal violence.