Pitr̥, putra, aura dharmayuddha. Agniparīkshā = Father, son and holy war. Trial by fire / [production, direction, editing, Anand Patwardhan].
In a politically polarized world, universal ideals are rare. In India, as elsewhere, the vacuum is filled by religious zeal. Minorities are made scapegoats of every calamity as nations subdivide into religious and ethnic zones, each seemingly eager to annihilate the other or extinguish itself on the...
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| Other title: | Father, son and holy war. Trial by fire Trial by fire |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | Hindi English |
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[Distributed by] Anand Patwardhan,
[2021]
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| Summary: | In a politically polarized world, universal ideals are rare. In India, as elsewhere, the vacuum is filled by religious zeal. Minorities are made scapegoats of every calamity as nations subdivide into religious and ethnic zones, each seemingly eager to annihilate the other or extinguish itself on the altar of martyrdom. FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against "the other" may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of "manhood." Part 1: TRIAL BY FIRE a reference to the ordeal that the Hindu god-king Rama tested his wife's fidelity with, looks at the communal fires that have consumed India in recent years. "Sati," a 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 a mosque in Ayodhya, are set against 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 band of Hindus and Muslims who march for communal harmony in the riot-torn streets of Bombay. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Originally produced in [1994]; previously released in 1995. |
| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video file (60 min.) : sound, color |
| Production Credits: | Camera, Anand Patwardhan ; music, Vinay Mahajan [and 3 others]. |
| Language: | In Hindi with English subtitles. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 01, 2021). |