Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ਅੰਨ੍ਹੇ ਘੋੜੇ ਦਾ ਦਾਨ Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Punjabi |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gurvinder Singh |
| script | Gurvinder Singh |
| production | National Film Development Corporation |
| music | Catherine Lamb |
| camera | Satya Rai Nagpaul |
| cut | Ujjwal Chandra |
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Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan ( Punjabi : ਅੰਨ੍ਹੇ ਘੋੜੇ ਦਾ ਦਾਨ ãnhe ghōṛe dā dān ) is a2011 Indian film directed by Gurvinder Singh .
action
The film revolves around the daily events of a Dalit family in a Panjab village. On a foggy winter morning, a villager's house on the outskirts of the village is torn down after the previous landowner sold the land to a stranger for industrial use. As a silent sympathizer, the father joins the community in demanding justice for the affected family in front of the village's Sarpanch .
His son Melu, a rickshaw driver in Bathinda , took part in a union strike on the same day and was injured. The rest of the day he drives around aimlessly and spends the rest of the day with friends with whom he debates the meaning of existence.
In the village, the mother feels arbitrarily humiliated by the landowner on whose field she works, because he has complained that she has taken some mustard plants for her own use. Nocturnal shots worry the villagers. It is the night of a lunar eclipse when a man collects the traditional "alms for a blind horse". The father drives a tractor into town at night with a friend, while Melu comes to the village, where he meets his sister Dayalo.
background
Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan is based on the story of the same name by Gurdial Singh from 1976 and is the directorial debut of FTII graduate Gurvinder Singh . The dialogues were written by Gurdial Singh and Jasdeep Singh . As art director was Pankaj Dhiman committed. Creative Producer for the National Film Development Corporation was Mani Kaul in one of its last actions before his death.
Filming took place from January 19 to March 4, 2011 in the village of Siviyan and the city of Bathinda . Except for the Melu actor Samuel Sikander John, a theater actor from Patiala , all the other actors from the village of Siviyan are non-professional.
Festival performances and awards
The film was shown in the subsidiary program of the 68th Venice International Film Festival 2011 , the 55th BFI London Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival . At the 5th Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2011 he received the Special Jury Award “New Horizons”. At the 43rd International Film Festival of India in Panaji , it won the Golden Peacock for best film.
At the 59th National Film Awards in India in 2012 , Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan was awarded the prizes for best director , best camera and best film in Punjabi .
Reviews
In “Alms for a Blind Horse” the writer and director Gurvinder Singh cares more about the weathered faces of the villagers and the morning mist that drifts over the place than about storytelling. His method is a slow, conscientious formalism - so slow and so conscientious that his film appears evacuated and over-aesthetic.
Web links
- Anhe Ghore Da Daan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer
- Gurvinder Singh's film in the Venice Film Biennale
- Wings of a Bird: A Q&A with Gurvinder Singh (Interview with Gurvinder Singh on October 13, 2011)
- Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sunayana Singh : The Making of Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan , 2011, 42 min
- ↑ ADFF Awards
- ↑ Alms for a Blind Horse (Anhey Ghohrey da Daan)
- ↑ 43rd IFFI 2012 Awards ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fog and Faces: Day and Night in the Punjab - 'Alms for a Blind Horse,' Gurvinder Singh's Look at Life in The New York Times, August 21, 2012
