"BAWANDAR"-dark beauteous Nandita Das, subjected to grave and worst possible physical humiliation

Kudos to M/s Doshi and Mundhra for taking up this bold subject which did not fit in the usual commercial film formula. A sensitively directed film, it deals with the worst form of exploitation inflicted on the lower castes by the powerful upper caste community, and shows how the bureaucracy, administration and judiciary is maneuvered by them to attain their ends. Extremely sensitively portrayed by Nandita Das in the pivotal role, it is a " shocking story .........., with bright landscape, colourful attire, and picture postcard beauty, but scratch the surface, and find the dark realities of casteism, chauvinism and exploitation", as succinctly described in the film itself.
Nandita Das herself said (Mumbai Mirror-29.07.2011), "In the film, I played the character of an illiterate woman.... She .. is still fighting for justice. As an actor, I went through her journey of being ..... abused, humiliated and threatened. Though I just had to emote, the ......... scene was emotionally and physically very draining. I ... felt a deep sense of shame and anger.....The woman in me had taken over the actor, and it was one rare time that I screamed on a shoot. That scene made me feel so violated ....... In that moment, I actually felt what a woman goes through when she is ..... physically abused......"
This excerpt is just a subdued introduction to the grim realities shown in the film.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Bawandar
• Nandita Das
• Raghuvir Yadav
• Deepti Naval
• Rahul Khanna
• exploitation
• women
• Jagmohan Mundhra

[vermasureshc]

As far as Premanand ji's querries go, 1. I do not work in or for any studio, 2. I am not employed by anybody to upload anything on U-tube or anywhere else and I do not get paid for what I do. I just happen to be a film buff, and am doing this out of love for Hindi cinema. I enjoy uploading small excerpts from films from the “golden era” so as to act as means, for the generation younger to mine, to appreciate the quality of films/music of those times. 

[vermasureshc]

I must acknowledge the magnanimity shown by Premanand ji in being the first to so generously praise the uploaded excerpt from 'Bawandar' . I also am thankful to Chiku62 and Venkateshwarji for being kind in saying nice words about my effort. Thanks indeed, all of you.

[venkateshwar781]

brilliantly edited by the uploader,too good

hey premanand you need to first develop skill for editing,the editing done by the uploader is only possible with lot of experiance and with technical and creative skillskill.you can first try doing simple editing and not in to complecx one.you can use windows movie maker for simple editing.i use FCP please remeber editing is art you need to be creative,so u can start with movie maker first

[chiku62]

i completely agree with mr.premanand the people who have subscribed to mr.verma are privileged to have him on youtube he puts so much efforts for viewers for a visual treat that only he can manage there are so many people who just put scenes only but mr.suresh puts his heart soul and effort in to it.

claps for mr.suresh verma

[premanand119]

.which studio you are working,is youtube paying you for this.can you just give me some editing tips as i am big fan of you which software you use and how much time it takes

[premanand119]

i have been watching your other vidoes too and see thing i have observed that in all other videos to you reedit them brilliantly so that viewers get the story completely in 15 mins thats brilliant skill you have

[premanand119]

,the way the flow is is just amazing beacuse people here on youtube dont have time to watch complete movie and you have excellently reedited the story in a kind of short story.there is same scenes uploaded on utube but the way you edited it in a story form and the way you shown the roughness scene was brilliant keep the esthetics shows the skills of you

[premanand119]

hi suresh,

shrilled by watching this,this is real india i have seen this movie 3 times and just noticed that you nicely compiled the movie story in 15-20 mins am i right,just mindbogling kudoos to you