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Mocherla, Shoba
Mocherla, Shoba
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"Sisir Sahana is a “stormist” from the metaphor of the storm that he uses in his second feature film venture, Matti o manush, with its anguished portrayal of ritualism that is mindlessly practised even in the new century. Sahana holds a mirror to our middleclass hypocrisy that reduces the sacred pursuit of the truth to the mechanical following of insipid rituals and superstitions. The film’s story revolves around a teacher of scientific temperament who gives in to his mother’s wish, in a moment of emotion, and agrees to leave no stone unturned in driving the so-called “evil” out of his mute daughter’s life. He joins the band of village sanyasis who insist that he join them in rituals like dancing around the village in the hot sun, and hanging upside down from a banyan tree - all to ward off the evil eye."
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2010-04
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