This film is not for a theater-going audience, and is simply meant for entry into film festivals and better off for personal viewing experience. The story creatively uses Dharma’s neighboring family members as pawns to showcase the despondence of life in troubled vicinity. When men turn up to protest at the Sarpanch’s house, they’re given false hopes and glimpses of muscle power. The beauty of this film is exactly what might be wrongly-judged as opaqueness in vision per se.ĭharma, a peasant from the neighborhood has his land sold off by the landlord of the village. Director Gurvinder Singh’s surety about the look of his film is like vacuum that sucks in the viewer, and lets him wander equally clueless as are the characters of this story, written by Gurdial Singh. Produced by the National Film Development Corporation of India, Anhey Ghorey Da Daan is a story about a community that wakes up with a sole-focused ambition of surviving the chilly winter mornings at dawn, and the unrelenting savages of humanity by dusk. A staggering contrast to the conventional Bollywood depiction of the Punjabis from Punjab. Forlorn of all hope and defenseless at all times are the Dalit Sikhs from Gurvinder Singh’s film. This film has also won the Golden Peacock award for best film at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2012 in Panaji.In a dying village of Punjab, people don’t speak. In the regional category (Punjabi language) it was given another award for best film in 59th National Film Awards. The film won National Awards for Best Direction and Cinematography (for cinematographer Satya Raj Nagpaul) at the 59th National Film Awards of India. It was also shown at the 55th BFI London Film Festival, 49th New York Film Festival and the 16th Busan International Film Festival. It won the Special Jury Award and the $50,000 Black Pearl trophy at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film premiered in the Orizzonti section (Horizons) at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Both father and son are equally clueless about their futures.Īnhe Ghore Da Daan is the first Punjabi-language film to have travelled to numerous international film festivals. The rickshaw pullers have gone on a strike that has turned violent. The elderly farmer's son is a rickshaw puller in the nearby town. The landlord has apparently sold his plots to an industry which has demolished the house of one of the villagers who refuses to vacate it. Daily rituals betray their simmering anger and their helplessness. It is a village where people are trying hard to make peace with their existence. The film is set in a village in the outskirts of Bathinda city where villagers work in the fields of the local landlord.
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