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[film screenings on MAY 13 – MAY 15, 2022]
Vikalp@Prithvi - Online Screenings - Week 103
Watch 6 short films from Uttar Pradesh on the theme 'Decoding Communalism' and send your questions for Anurag Singh, the director, by Sunday midnight to vikalpscreenings@gmail.com.
1. The Kairana Files
https://youtu.be/p2YbXGVoA0g
Muslims and Hindus speak out against the BJP's 'Forced Exodus' claims
made in the run-up to the State Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in
2022.
2. Is Narendra Modi's Kashi Corridor laying the ground for another Babri?
https://youtu.be/TFy76Jt6VLE
Understanding how the Kashi Corridor plan is stirring communal politics.
3. In Ayodhya, Rave Parties for Hate-Mixes
https://youtu.be/bMswhvFSLqc
On youth radicalisation by the right-wing state in Ayodhya.
4. In Yogi's UP, Godmen and Bureaucrats Collude, but Citizens are Forgotten
https://youtu.be/zAd83hIM3NI
On the Chief Minister's coterie of godmen and bureaucrats.
5. 'Don't Wash Our Feet, Take Care of Our Stomachs'
https://youtu.be/aGi8iVrQbKg
On February 24, 2019, Prime Minister Modi washed the feet of five
sanitation workers who were working at the Kumbh Mela and hailed them as
'karma yogis'. The filmmakers traced the five people and asked them
about their experience with Modi and their future ambitions.
6. Asha Aur Nirasha: When ABVP Disrupted an Event Held to Honour 'Nirbhaya'
https://youtu.be/5NEezPXBpno
On December 16 every year, the parents of the young woman known as
'Nirbhaya' hold an event to remember their lost child, and to bring
together people to discuss how sexual crimes can be prevented. In 2017,
the student wing of the RSS – the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad
(ABVP) – which has used this issue for pushing its brand of politics,
disrupted this event.
