Turup
1h 12min | 2017 | Hindi with English subtitles
Austin TX - 4/20/18, 7:00-9:00 pm
Screening in DFW on 4/26/18
SYNOPSIS
In the neighbourhood, chess is a popular pass time with roadside games bringing together men from different strata. Their pawns include morality and religion, causing social and political tensions to erupt when a tournament gets underway. But the men are only the most visible players.
Against this simmering backdrop, a domestic worker with a secret hobby, a young woman in love and a former journalist struggling with married life must make their moves with care. When caste, class, religion and gender come into play, there are boundaries to be negotiated, and the very rules of the game stand challenged.
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DIRECTOR'S PROFILE
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Ektara Collective is an independent, autonomous, non-funded group of people who seek to combine creative efforts and imagination and collaborate with trained and untrained people to make films that are content wise and aesthetically located in people’s subjective, contextual realities and experiences. Through this process, Ektara has made and produced 2 short fiction films earlier (Chanda Ke Joote, 22mins, 2011; Jaadui Machchi, 38mins, 2013). This is our first fiction feature film.
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Turup (Checkmate) looks at the contemporary issues of caste, class, gender and growing right wing vigilantism prevalent in the country (India) today. It also brings out resistance and solidarities existing within these realities that quietly yet resolutely subvert the growing repression in their own manner.
This film has been made collectively by Ektara Collective over a period of a year. It was made along with the residents of different working class settlements living in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. All of the cast and much of the crew were from the settlements. Other technical and non-technical people came from across the country to become a part of the film. The process of making the film was a collaborative and evolving one where ideas about the script, dialogues, shoot, edit and music were shared, finalised and eventually executed. The film thus is a product of collective effort where each person involved has contributed her/his own unique vision, skill and perspective to it, guiding and often maneuvering it to reach its logical conclusion.
FILM CREDITS
Producer: Ektara Collective
Story, Script, Screenplay: Rinchin and Maheen Mirza
Cinematography: Maheen Mirza
Editing: Puloma Pal
Sound Design: Bigyna Bhushan Dahal
Production Design: Sanjay Raraiya, Priyanka Gaikwad, Tina Sharma
Music: Dev Narayan Saroliya, Kaluram Bamniya, Narayanji Delmia, Sangeeta Lahiri Shrivastav
Direction: Ektara Collective
Principal Cast:
Moulina Midde, Anil Singh, Madhu Bhagat, Syed Saim Ali, Nidhi Qazi, Hariram Darshyamkar, Aakash Jhamra, Kuldeep Arakka, Sheela Rawat, Abhinav Kumar, Deepak Nema, Hasanuddin, Madhu Dhurve, Geeta Dhrve, Preeti Jagat, Bali Jagat, Neelam Borkar, Seema Deshmukh, Pushpa Yadav, Tushar Pawar
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