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Vikalp @ Prithvi Presents 'Sengadal - The Dead Sea'...

August 26, 2011 12:00:00 AM IST
MTG editorial

'Sengadal - The Dead Sea' (2010) is a "factual feature film", which captures the fragments of simple lives beaten by an ethnic war in Sri Lanka that lasted three decades.

SENGADAL-THE DEAD SEA

Synopsis:

On the Indian mainland, across the waters, arrive the Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, an unending stream of people dispossessed of their lands and Gods, to an uncertain future with ever receding hopes of return. Dhanushkodi, the Indo-Sri Lankan border town, is the crucible wherein History is brewing this concoction of defeated lives and exhausted dreams. Hope is a big word and resistance but a tired expression. Three decades of struggle for a nation is washed out, a race obliterated.

For, there is no one fighting their war back home now. Heroic images have turned to dust. The bunkers run with the wasted blood. Smoke rises from heaps of putrid flesh. Unwanted lives rot away in barbed wire human zoos.

The misery spills over to the Indian shore. Fishermen fishing in fear, in ignorance of friendly and enemy waters get dumped as rebels, spies and smugglers and unceremoniously beaten to death or shot or maimed. Yet, each morning sees their boats launched once again to the sea as the sea is their motherland and the language of fish their mother tongue.

Leena Manimekalai, the filmmaker, Munusamy, the fisherman, and Rosemary, the social worker in Jesuit Christian Refugee Services, try hard to retain their sanity in this mad jumble. Their interactions with the dead or living refugees, their skirmishes with the Indian and Sri Lankan States, their personal lives overrun by external events - form the kernel of this narration.

Duration: 102 min

Screening Details:

On Monday, 29 August, 7 PM

At Prithvi House, Opposite Prithvi Theatre, Janki Kutir, Juhu Church Road, Bombay

Entry Free, On A First-Come-First-Seated Basis

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