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