[van-announce] Father, Son and Holy War: A Film By Anand Patwardhan

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Father, Son and Holy War: A Film By Anand Patwardhan

Where:
MBC2292 (SFU BURNABY CAMPUS)

When:
Monday, 1st of March 2004 from 4:30 PM until approximately 6:00 PM

Cost: free

FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR A Film By Anand Patwardhan

MONDAY MARCH 1ST 4:30 PM MBC2292 (SFU BURNABY CAMPUS) 

FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR examines the male psyche in contemporary India. It explores 
in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against 
so-called enemies, or ‘the other’, may lie in male insecurity, which is 
itself an inevitable product of the very construction of ‘manhood’. 

Part 1: TRIAL BY FIRE (1994, 60 min.) The “Trial By Fire” is a reference to the story 
of the ordeal by which the Hindu god-king Rama tested his wife Sita’s 
fidelity. It looks at some of the communal fires that have consumed

India in recent years – ‘Sati’, an illegal rite by which Roop Kanwar was thrown on 
her husband’s funeral pyre; the upper castes’ ‘purifying’ fire rituals; 
and the communal fires that ravaged Bombay after the demolition of the 
mosque in Ayodhya. Ranged against these are a small group of fire fighters – a 
Rajasthani woman who, against the odds, condemns Sati; a Muslim woman who 
battles gender discriminatory laws; and a group of Hindus and Muslims who 
march for communal harmony in the riot-torn streets of Bombay.

SPONSORED BY THE SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ALLIANCE (FORMERLY S.A.S.A) ***


  


Father, Son and Holy War: A Film By Anand Patwardhan

Where:
MBC2292 (SFU BURNABY CAMPUS)

When:
Monday, 1st of March 2004 from 4:30 PM until approximately 6:00 PM

Cost: free

FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR A Film By Anand Patwardhan

MONDAY MARCH 1ST 4:30 PM MBC2292 (SFU BURNABY CAMPUS) 

FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR examines the male psyche in contemporary India. It explores 
in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against 
so-called enemies, or ‘the other’, may lie in male insecurity, which is 
itself an inevitable product of the very construction of ‘manhood’. 

Part 1: TRIAL BY FIRE (1994, 60 min.) The “Trial By Fire” is a reference to the story 
of the ordeal by which the Hindu god-king Rama tested his wife Sita’s 
fidelity. It looks at some of the communal fires that have consumed

India in recent years – ‘Sati’, an illegal rite by which Roop Kanwar was thrown on 
her husband’s funeral pyre; the upper castes’ ‘purifying’ fire rituals; 
and the communal fires that ravaged Bombay after the demolition of the 
mosque in Ayodhya. Ranged against these are a small group of fire fighters – a 
Rajasthani woman who, against the odds, condemns Sati; a Muslim woman who 
battles gender discriminatory laws; and a group of Hindus and Muslims who 
march for communal harmony in the riot-torn streets of Bombay.

SPONSORED BY THE SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ALLIANCE (FORMERLY S.A.S.A) ***


  



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