by Rwita Dutta
“Faltu Lok” received the Best Short Film award in the recently concluded Ottawa Indian Film Festival, 2021. The Jury has unanimously appreciated the work. They found the film to be quite cinematic and real. It’s always a pleasure to analyse the text of a debut film. Be it a short fiction or a long feature film, any new director deserves our undivided attention.
Urban poor is that unwanted demographic community in a rapidly developing city that their existence, agony, pain and sufferings seem to be something invisible. They never feature in the dominant discourse of human history. They cannot represent themselves, simply because they are not equipped enough. They need to be represented. This reminds me the famous essay of the Marxist-Feminist-Deconstructionist, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak “Can the subaltern speak”??
In an age of identity politics, a lower-class taxi driver in a city like Kolkata is definitely a...
“Faltu Lok” received the Best Short Film award in the recently concluded Ottawa Indian Film Festival, 2021. The Jury has unanimously appreciated the work. They found the film to be quite cinematic and real. It’s always a pleasure to analyse the text of a debut film. Be it a short fiction or a long feature film, any new director deserves our undivided attention.
Urban poor is that unwanted demographic community in a rapidly developing city that their existence, agony, pain and sufferings seem to be something invisible. They never feature in the dominant discourse of human history. They cannot represent themselves, simply because they are not equipped enough. They need to be represented. This reminds me the famous essay of the Marxist-Feminist-Deconstructionist, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak “Can the subaltern speak”??
In an age of identity politics, a lower-class taxi driver in a city like Kolkata is definitely a...
- 7/2/2021
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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