(Morality TV aur Loving Jehad: Ek Manohar Kahani), Paromita Vohra / IND, 2007
Hindi / English subtitles, 31 min
In the winter of 2005, Indians switched on their TV sets to watch yet another “breaking news” story, which shocked them. In the town of Meerut, police officers, mostly women, swooped down on lovers in a park and began to beat them up. Along with them they took photographers and news cameramen with the promise of an exclusive sting operation. What is the story of this news story? The film looks outside the frames that weave the frenetic tapestry of Breaking News on India’s news channels to uncover a town’s complex dynamics – the fear of love, the constant scrutiny and control of women’s mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, caste brutalization and feudal equations.
This film is part of a program curated by Karan Bali, filmmaker and co–founder of Upperstall.com
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