Father, son and holy war Part one [production, direction, editing, Anand Patwardhan]

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Patwardhan, Anand, filmmaker.

Language:

English

Hindi

Subjects (All):

Men--India--Psychology.

Men.

Masculinity--India.

Masculinity.

Violence--India--Psychological aspects.

Violence.

Sati--India.

Sati.

Women--Crimes against--India.

Women.

Men--Psychology.

Violence--Psychological aspects.

Women--Crimes against.

India.

Genre:

documentary film.

Documentary films

Feature films

Nonfiction films

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 13 sec.)) : sound, color

Other Title:

Home page has title Father, son and holy war Trial by fire

Original title Pitr̥, putra, aura dharmayuddha Agniparīkshā

Place of Publication:

[India] [Anand Patwardhan] [1994]

Language Note:

In Hindi with English subtitles

System Details:

digital

video file

Summary:

"In a politically polarized world, universal ideals are rare. In India, as elsewhere, the vacuum is filled by religious zeal. Minorities are made scapegoats of every calamity as nations subdivide into religious and ethnic zones, each seemingly eager to annihilate the other or extinguish itself on the altar of martyrdom. FATHER, SON AND HOLY WAR explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against "the other" may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of "manhood." Part 1: TRIAL BY FIRE a reference to the ordeal that the Hindu god-king Rama tested his wife's fidelity with, looks at the communal fires that have consumed India in recent years. "Sati," a rite by which Roop Kanwar was thrown on her husband's funeral pyre; the upper castes' "purifying" fire rituals and the communal fires that ravaged Bombay after the demolition of a mosque in Ayodhya, are set against a small group of fire fighters: a Rajasthani woman who, against the odds, condemns Sati; a Muslim woman who battles gender discriminatory laws; and a band of Hindus and Muslims who march for communal harmony in the riot-torn streets of Bombay"-- From Docuseek

Credits:

Camera, Anand Patwardhan ; music, Vinay Mahajan [and 3 others]

Notes:

Originally produced in 1994

Online resource; title from title frame (Docuseek, viewed August 11, 2025)

OCLC:

1245862285

Publisher Number:

ap-fshw1 Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license