Un-freedom (2015)
Probably the ban on this film skyrocketed its popularity. An indie film made by a debutante filmmaker director using relatively unknown actors (minus Victor Banerjee), using unconventional cinematography technique and storytelling suddenly stirred everybody's fancy.
The censors probably thought that there were too many scenes with the unnecessary meaningless show of flesh and gory violence was too much for the general public to stomach.
Two unrelated stories are told in parallel in two different corners of the world, in Delhi and New York. The shots are abrupt and tend to move at a fast pace intertwining scene to scene. Halfway through the movie, you are still wondering where the film is heading, and both events are related. Anyway, they are not, but the symbolism is there, much about it later.
In Delhi, a bride runs away from her wedding to be her lesbian lover, a Caucasian free-spirited hippie painter who is a promoter of the LGBT movement. The trouble is her lover no longer in her but was currently in a relationship with a guy!
In New York, a fundamentalist Pakistani Muslim is out to assassinate a moderate cleric who condemns terrorism.
Both stories get complicated. People are tortured and murdered, and crimson hue is the order of the day.
The most disturbing part of the movie is the scene where the runaway bride is captured by her father, a police officer who approves revenge rape when she refuses to change her sexuality!
The common denominator in both the story is that people are using religion for their own agenda. The religious fundamentalists are using quotes from the holy text for their convenience. Sexual deviants also tend to justify their actions by giving it a quasi-religious tinge to it.
Probably the ban on this film skyrocketed its popularity. An indie film made by a debutante filmmaker director using relatively unknown actors (minus Victor Banerjee), using unconventional cinematography technique and storytelling suddenly stirred everybody's fancy.The censors probably thought that there were too many scenes with the unnecessary meaningless show of flesh and gory violence was too much for the general public to stomach.
Two unrelated stories are told in parallel in two different corners of the world, in Delhi and New York. The shots are abrupt and tend to move at a fast pace intertwining scene to scene. Halfway through the movie, you are still wondering where the film is heading, and both events are related. Anyway, they are not, but the symbolism is there, much about it later.
In Delhi, a bride runs away from her wedding to be her lesbian lover, a Caucasian free-spirited hippie painter who is a promoter of the LGBT movement. The trouble is her lover no longer in her but was currently in a relationship with a guy!
In New York, a fundamentalist Pakistani Muslim is out to assassinate a moderate cleric who condemns terrorism.
Both stories get complicated. People are tortured and murdered, and crimson hue is the order of the day.
The most disturbing part of the movie is the scene where the runaway bride is captured by her father, a police officer who approves revenge rape when she refuses to change her sexuality!
The common denominator in both the story is that people are using religion for their own agenda. The religious fundamentalists are using quotes from the holy text for their convenience. Sexual deviants also tend to justify their actions by giving it a quasi-religious tinge to it.
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