Jai Bhim comrade / camera, direction, production, editing, Anand Patwardhan.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Patwardhan, Anand, director of photography, editor of moving image work, film director, film producer, distributor.

Series:

Docuseek2 Complete Collection, Third Edition

Language:

English

Hindi

Marathi

Subjects (All):

Caste--India.

Caste.

Dalits--India.

Dalits.

Group identity--India.

Group identity.

Caste--Political aspects--India.

Group identity--Political aspects--India.

Social conflict--India.

Social conflict.

Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji), 1891-1956.

Ambedkar, B. R.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 streaming video file (2 hr., 48 min.) ) digital, sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [Distributed by] Anand Patwardhan, [2021]

Language Note:

In Marathi and Hindi with English subtitles.

Summary:

For thousands of years India's Dalits were abhorred as "untouchables," denied education and treated as bonded labour. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India's Constitution, led his followers to discard Hinduism for Buddhism. His legend still spreads through poetry and song. In 1997 a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with footwear. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest. Jai Bhim Comrade shot over 14 years, follows the poetry and music of people like Vilas and marks a subaltern tradition of reason that, from the days of the Buddha, has fought superstition and religious bigotry.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced in [2012].

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 01, 2021).

OCLC:

1245862223

Publisher Number:

ap-jbc Docuseek2