[IMC Bombay] Aakrosh

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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:17:43 +0100 (BST)
=46rom: ramesh pimple <pmiright@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: gujarat film
To: shrikumar@attbi.com, ursala@hathway.com, bmrrpia@cc.iitb.ac.in,


Dear Friends,

Today Gujarat is at crossroad with venom of
communalism deeply rooted and population is presently
divided on communal line and at this stage you will
find very few Gujarati Hindus standing by for the
principles of secularism and peaceful co-existence and
communal harmony.

Geeta Chawda, maker of this film is coming from lower
middle class conservative family of Baroda, coming
from working class family, herself is highly religious
person and amateur cameraperson.

She was working with us as an office assistant when we
were doing Lok Adalat, a mock trial of cases on human
rights violation and oppression for TARA Gujarathi
channel, it was 2001, a massive earthquake hit the
Kutch and Ahmedabad. On hearing the news we were
looking for someone to go to Kutch immediately, but no
one was prepared as mild and strong earthquake were
still hitting Kutch and the forecast was made for
another big quake, she took the camera without knowing
how to operate it and went to Kutch the same night
when quake struck Gujarat, she saw death and
destructions and came back as a totally changed
person.

Death and Destruction again hit Gujarat on 27th Feb
2002, it was man made, she took the camera and started
moving in riot-hit areas, camps, saw the naked brutal
face of human world and decided to make a film. The
only question she used to raise - Why women and
children are made victims? maimed, raped, killed, why
them? If men want to fight battle for religion, they
should go in an open ground outside the city and
fight. Very innocent way of looking at the situation.
We discouraged her but she went ahead and shot 18 hrs.
of footage, invested her meager saving from P.F., we
knew who will buy the cassette and who will fund
produce it.

She went ahead and made this small film with
determination, it is a small film made by small people
for small people, so please expect and also don=92t
expect much from it. The film is dedicated to her
mother Maniben who was Mother India to her.

Myself, Yusuf Mehta, Fatima helped her in post
production stage and told her not to show horrifying
footage of burnt dead bodies, raped women and hacked
children to death, rest is hers.

We make earnest appeal to buy and promote this VCD or
VHS cassette in all way possible.

The VCD was released to the public by Shobha De,
columnist, and Prakash Shah, convener of Lok Sangharsh
Samittee-Ahmedabad on 16th October at the Press Club
and everybody found it very touching and a well made
film.

This VCD is so effective that it can be shown to
Basti=92s, villages, children=92s, women=92s, youth and all
sections of the population and those hardcore
Hindutvawadis will also have to consent that whatever
happened in Gujarat was a wrong deed. This film is
very powerful, emotional and touching.

Name of the short film		: =93Aakrosh=94

Language			: Hindi

Duration			: 20 mins.

Mode				: VCD and VHS

Rate				: Rs. 200 /- per VCD or VHS cassette.

Discount Rate for Bulk Booking	: Negotiable

Payment Terms			: Advance Payment through cheque or
draft
in favour of Manima Creations,
Ahmedabad.


Contact Address

Ahmedabad		: Flat No.72, Bldg. =93H=94, Management
Enclave, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad. Pin =96 15,
Tel No. (079) 6351923

Baroda			: Ms. Kashmira
402, Darpan Bldg., R.C.Dutt Road,
Baroda - 390 005. Tel: (0265) 343474

Mumbai			: Mr. R.N.Pimple
=46lat No. 002, Ground Floor, Parasrampuria Tower No. 6,
Lokhandwala, Oshiwara, Mumbai =96 400 053. Tel: (022)
6358302

Mobile No.
Geeta Chawda			: 9821633426
Ramesh Pimple			: 9821109295

E-mail Address			: pmiright@yahoo.co.in

Sponsorship & Branding or
sole right	                : We are looking for it as
Geeta Chawda
   needs to recover her hard earned money.

We appeal to you again to support Geeta Chawda and the
cause.


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