Film Club,Department of Psychology
Screening and Discussion Of
TRAFFIC SIGNAL
India/2007/70mm/Colour/Hindi
Direction: Madhur Bhandarkar,
Producer: Baldev Pushkarna, Kavita Pushkarna
Cinematographer: Mahesh Limaye
Music: Raju Singh, Shamir Tandon
Cast: Kunal Khemu, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neetu Chandra, Ranvir Shorey
Awards: National Film Awards in 2007 as Best Director for this film, and Anil Moti Ram Palande, the first National Film Award for Best Make-up Artist
Life manifests differently in society, at various strata, each with its own limited scope toward satisfying the desires and temptations of materialism. The film, directed by the National Award Winning director, Madhur Bhandarkar, is a morbid sketch of the crude reality of the people who constitute the impoverished majority of our country. It starkly depicts the wide gap between the haves and the have-nots whereby each one plays an indispensable role in the growth and development of the economy of the nation. The deprived circumstances of street sex workers, beggars and those exploited through child extortion and human trafficking is elucidated with intricate outlines. Theirs is an intense cry for help, seeking sensitivity from the viewers in order to become more receptive toward the large part of the other side of the world and begin considering them worthy of a well-provided-for human life. Although there is no single protagonist in the film, it explores the lives of Silsila and others victimized in the constant struggle for survival. Amidst the flux of power hierarchies, their lives are somewhere lost. The street lingo, Bambaiya, is captured in the movie that provides a real, grounded and straight-to-the-bone thematic element that projects the lives of the denizens and the circumstances that affect them.
To get a taste of reality, we invite you all to watch the film together to reflect, think and introspect as a conscious collective whole on:
DATE: January 8th, 2011
TIME: 1.30p.m. to 4p.m.
No comments:
Post a Comment