Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2005 is India s entry at SAARC International film fest
Thu, Apr 22 2021 06:29:14 PM
Mumbai, Apr 22 (IANS): Ananth Mahadevan s Marathi directorial Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2005 has been nominated as India s entry at SAARC International Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of a woman in Kerala who fought for justice for her son over 13 years, following his death owing to police torture in custody. The guilty policemen were sentenced to death by a special CBI court.
Mahadevan believes his film holds relevance at an international film festival, at a time when judgement was passed in the George Floyd case in the US on Wednesday. The verdict declared a former Minneapolis policeman, Derek Chauvin, guilty of killing African-American Floyd, by pinning him to the pavement with his knee on May 25 last year for over nine minutes, which led to the latter s death. The incident triggered the Black Lives Matter campaign.
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Sindhutai Sapkal, 72, is the other name for grit and determination, and thus when she was awarded the Padma Shri for social work in 2021, everybody celebrated. Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, who made the National Award-winning Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (2010) on the life of the ‘Mother of Orphans’, talked about the inspiration behind the film.
He said, “For all that she has undergone, like being thrown out of the house when she was pregnant and then delivering a baby in the cowshed, being subjected to humiliation by the husband and family, she was on the verge of giving up on life, not once but twice, but then she decided to give life to the needy.”