Mardistan = Macholand / the Public Service Broadcasting Trust partnership with Doordarshan Prasar Bharati Corporation presents ; the Open Frame ; a film by Harjant Gill ; director, Harjant Gill ; script, Harjant Gill, Abhishek Sharma ; made in collaboration with Tilotama Productions.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Gill, Harjant, screenwriter, director, editor of moving image work, editor.
• Sharma, Abhishek, screenwriter, screenwriter.
• Sandhu, Pearl, director of photography, director of photography.
• Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India), production company, film distributor, distributor.
• Tilotama Productions, production company, producer.
• Prasar Bharti Corporation (India), production comapny, producer.
• Open Frame, presenter, presenter.
• Doordarshan (Television station : New Delhi, India), presenter.

Language:

• English
• Panjabi

Subjects (All):

• Sex role--India.
• Sex role.
• Patriarchy.
• Masculinity.
• India.
• Masculinity--India.
• Patriarchy--India.

Genre:

• Documentary films.
• Short films.
• Nonfiction films.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (approximately 29 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
• polychrome

Other Title:

Macholand

Place of Publication:

[New Delhi, India] : Public Service Broadcasting Trust , [2014]

Language Note:

In English and Punjabi with English subtitles for the Punjabi.

System Details:

• DVD-R.
• digital optical
• video file DVD video

Summary:

"Mardistan (Macholand) is an exploration of Indian manhood articulated through the voices of four men from different generations and backgrounds. A middle-aged writer trying to make sense of the physical and sexual abuse he witnessed studying in an elite military academy, a Sikh father of twin daughters resisting the pressure to produce a son, a young 20-year-old college student looking for a girlfriend with whom he can lose his virginity, and a working-class gay activist coming out to his wife after twenty years of marriage. Together, their stories make up different dimensions of what it means to be a man in India today. Mardistan (Macholand) starts a conversation on critical issues including patriarchy, son preference, sexual violence and homophobia in a nation increasingly defined by social inequalities"--IMDb.

Participant:

Amandeep Sandhu, Gurpreet Singh, Tarun Dhamija, Dhananjay Chuhan, Nivedita Menon.

Credits:

Editor, Harjant Gill; cinematographer, Pearl Sandhu; composer, Rashad Ullah.

Notes:

Extras: Roots of love (approximately 27 min.) / director, Harjant Gill (Told through the stories of six different men ranging in age from fourteen to eighty-six, Roots of love documents the changing significance of hair and the turban among Sikhs in India).

Contains:

Roots of love.

OCLC:

908037397