7 goddesses
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 7 goddesses |
| Original title | Angry Indian Goddesses |
| Country of production | India , Germany |
| original language | Hindi , English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pan Nalin |
| script | Pan Nalin , Subhadra Mahajan , Dilip Shankar , Arsala Qureishi |
| production | Nandish Domlur, Gaurav Dhingra, Pan Nalin |
| music | Cyril Morin |
| camera | Swapnil Sonawane |
| cut | Shreya's Beltangdy |
| occupation | |
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7 goddesses (also titled Angry Indian goddesses in sales) is an Indian tragicomedy from the year 2015 by Pan Nalin . The film had on the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival premiere excellent and there was the audience award.
action
The film begins by introducing individual women. Frieda is a photographer who refuses to portray the product the way the client wants it. Madhurita ( Mad ) is a singer who has failed with her own program. Suranjana is a CEO in a corporation that is about to build a new mine. Nargis Nasreen is the leader of the protests against this construction project. Pamela Jaswal ( Pam ) is a wife and Joanna ( Jo ) is a Bollywood star .
After the opening credits, all the women gather in Goa , where Frieda has invited them. Suranjana brought her daughter Maya with her. The Dalit Laxmi still works in the house with her grandmother. Frieda didn't tell anyone why she invited the others, so the astonishment is even greater when Jo brings a wedding dress. It becomes clear: Frieda is getting married and has invited her friends to a bachelorette party . While the women spend some nice days together, it turns out that almost everyone is dissatisfied with their life. Pam wants to get a divorce because of too much pressure from her in-laws, Mad's records don't sell and Jo is only used as a sex symbol in her films . In addition there is also Nargis Nasreen, who is portrayed as the arch enemy of Suranjana. While Suranjana wants to leave in a rage, Frieda can persuade her to stay in Goa. Suranjana and Nargis then speak out.
However, from the start the unanswered question is who Frieda will marry. In a scene in which Frieda does not speak, she comes out as a lesbian in front of the others . It becomes clear; she marries Nargis Nasreen. When asked how the two want to do it - since same-sex marriage is forbidden in India - the two say that they had to get into a deal with the church: six guests are allowed at the wedding - Frieda's father does not come because he is ashamed of his daughter.
Laxmi also holds a grudge against a bar owner named Toni who murdered her brother eight years ago. Laxmi was the only witness and therefore her hearing is always postponed, which is why she has now lived seven years without a court judgment. After a failed act of revenge in Toni's bar, Laxmi buys a gun and hides it in the house. Suranjana's daughter Maya photographs all of this with her iPhone and, after Laxmi's departure, takes the gun out of its hiding place. Unknowingly, she threatens her mother when she points the loaded gun for Suranjana and says "Bang". Suranjana, shocked, calls in the lady of the house Frieda, Laxmi angry and hides the weapon in a box in the presence of Suranjanas and Mads.
On the way to an excursion, Frieda's car breaks down and comes to a standstill. When the women want to inspect the car, they are harassed and attacked by a group of men. The women can chase the men away because they are outnumbered, but are annoyed afterwards that they did not make any video evidence of this incident.
After Laxmi and Frieda have made up again, all women go to a last dinner together by the sea on the last evening before the wedding. With a phone call, Suranjana decides that the construction project for the mine has been canceled and explains that she has not yet had a wedding present for Frieda and Nasreen. As the evening wore on, the women began to make fun of Jo's British accent. Jo is very personal, which is why she gets up at some point and says she wants to go for a walk. The women continue to sit at the table as the evening goes on. When they are about to leave, Jo has still not returned and the women leave Laxmi in the jeep with Maya while they look for Joanna.
When Joanna does not answer calls, the women take flashlights to look for them on the beach. You ask several people, some of whom saw my Jo. When they find Jo, she is badly injured and unconscious on the beach. The ambulance, who is called, refuses to take any action, but first to call the police because he explains to the women that Joanna is dead. When the police arrive, they ask the women very inappropriate questions. She makes no attempt to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Mad discovers that Suranjana has disappeared and drives back to the house in a panic with the others. There they find the box with the weapon open - the weapon is missing. Panicked, they race back to the beach where they see that Suranjana has the men that they had molested the wagon a few days ago, identified as perpetrators and in a fit of vigilante kills three of the men, after Mad takes her gun and the remaining two kills.
The next day, the church is dominated by Joanna's coffin, in which she is laid out - wearing Frieda's wedding dress . Due to the rape of a British woman in India by Indian men, there was an international media coverage that attracted many mourners to the church. During the funeral speeches of the friends, the policeman appears from the previous evening and explains that there was a murder case with five dead the previous evening. He now asks the perpetrator to stand up so that the police can make work easier. He repeatedly pleads urgently that the perpetrator stand up and Nargis Nasreen gets up. Followed by Laxmi and all the other women, everyone in the church now stands up. The last to rise is Suranjana's daughter Maya.
background
The film is considered India's first female buddy movie . The director Pan Nalin - according to the actresses - withheld the entire plot from the actors. The respective scene was always introduced with a short conversation and improvised in front of the camera. As an example, the actresses cited the scene in which "Jo" dies. For this purpose, the director had the actress Amrit Maghera separated from the other actresses for three days. The first time the others saw "Jo" / Amrit Maghera, it was in front of the camera.
Amrit Maghera as Jo
Pavleen Gujral as Pam
Anushka Manchanda as Mad
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews.
German-language reviews
Hanns-Georg Rodek criticizes for Die Welt :
“The unsettling thing about '7 Goddesses' is that horror lurks in the idyllic normalcy, on the hippie island of Goa, in the middle of the hen party. Pan Nalin's film first lulls its viewers into the pink cloudiness of a female clique and then rams their fist in their stomachs: Take that, Indian company, let's see if you can take such a provocation. "
Bert Rebhandl writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung :
“Freida and her friends are not characters in the conventional sense, with complicated motivations and stubborn desires. They are walking (anti) theses in an agitational film. As such, '7 goddesses' has its status and rightly goes around the world. "
Gunda Bartels writes for the Tagesspiegel :
"[...] In this respect, it is completely okay that director Nalin [...] wields the mallet of overdrawing with his woodcut-like figure drawing and politically agitating tone. What is bad, however, is that by sanctioning vigilante justice he gives the wrong answer to the right questions. And also uses patterns of femininity that he pretends to dissolve. "
Christopher Diekhaus criticizes Artechock :
“Unfortunately, what you see doesn't leave any lasting effect, although the film ends with a bang worth discussing. Sometimes less is more - a phrase really hits the nail on the head here. "
Pierre Hagmann praises the cheerfulness of the film for the Berner Zeitung :
"On the whole, one likes to dive into this entertaining staged world of an Indian cry for lust and love, driven by women who are fed up with the role of victim and in the end fall into exactly this again."
International reviews
Justin Lowe says for the Hollywood Reporter : “ Plenty of anger, but not much resolution. "( Justin Lowe : 'Angry Indian Goddesses': IFFLA Review, German:" Full of anger, but without the right solution. ")
The Indian Express closes with its author Shubhra Gupta: “ These are flesh-and-blood women, and the film is delightful till they stay that way. Being labeled 'goddesses' seems like a ploy to reel in non-Indians looking for exotica, something the director does well. It doesn't do these lovely ladies any favors. "( Shubhra Gupta : These are flesh-and-blood women, the film is delightful till they stay that way, German:" These women are made of flesh and blood and the film will stay good as long as they stay that way. The term "goddesses" seems like a trick to attract non-Indians who are looking for something exotic. The director does the same. And he is doing the ladies a disservice ”)
Jay Weissberg criticizes for Variety :
“Nalin has several features and documentaries under his belt, but the way he crams so many issues into“ Angry Indian Goddesses ”leaves one thinking he must be a novice. It's a shame, as some of the frank discussions about sexual harassment and the pressures of "respectability" would have sufficed to give the film the social-activist seal of approval. "
“Nalin has been responsible for several feature films and documentaries, but the way he stuffs so many subjects into“ Seven Goddesses ”makes you think he's a beginner. This is a shame, as some of the open discussions about sexual harassment and the social pressures of "respect" would have been enough to give the film a social activist seal. "
Awards
- Audience Award at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival .
- Audience award at the Rome International Film Festival.
Web links
- Official website. In: aigthefilm.com. Retrieved June 23, 2016 .
- 7 goddesses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 7 goddesses . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age designation for 7 goddesses . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d e f 7 Goddesses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Angry Indian Goddesses. In: amazon.de. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Angry Indian Goddesses. (No longer available online.) In: tiff.net. TIFF, archived from the original on June 20, 2016 ; Retrieved June 20, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ a b TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2015 AWARD WINNERS. (PDF) In: cf. 40. Toronto International Film Festival, September 20, 2015, accessed June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Jay Weissberg: Film Review: 'Angry Indian Goddesses'. In: variety.com. Variety, October 27, 2015, accessed June 21, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Rogi on Twitter. In: twitter.com. Retrieved June 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: The truth about the life of women in India. In: Welt Online. June 15, 2016, accessed June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Bert Rebhandl: The Indian film "7 Goddesses": For over 150 years "against nature" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 16, 2016, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net ).
- ↑ Gunda Bartels: Vengeance and anger in the party paradise. In: tagesspiegel.de. Tagesspiegel, accessed June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Christopher Diekhaus: 7 Goddesses (India / D 2015): KRITIK. In: artechock.de. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Pierre Hagmann: Seven loud goddesses and a secret. In: bernerzeitung.ch. bernerzeitung.ch, accessed on June 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Justin Lowe: 'Angry Indian Goddesses': IFFLA Review. In: hollywoodreporter.com. The Hollywood Reporter, accessed June 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Shubhra Gupta: Angry Indian Goddesses movie review: These are flesh-and-blood women, the film is delightful till they stay that way. In: indianexpress.com. The Indian Express, December 4, 2015, accessed June 21, 2016 .
- ^ Damon Wise: Pan Nalin's 'Angry Indian Goddesses' Wins Rome Film Fest's People's Choice Award. In: variety.com. October 25, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2016 (American English).