Churni Ganguly’s National Award winning film Nirbashito (The Banished) is both an unflinching and compassionate look at the idea of exile, through the story of a writer, a poet, whose work has so inflamed political sensibilities that she ends up banished from her homeland, forceably torn from her home, moments after fussing over and feeding her beloved cat, Baaghini, which is the last thing she looks at as she is dragged out the door, flown to Rajasthan, taken to Delhi, and from there out of the country, under tight security. Nowhere, it seems, is safe for this writer. Nowhere in India, at least, and perhaps nowhere in the world, as the tight security which her Swedish protectors provide for her once she arrives in Stockholm shows.
Those of us who have, perhaps, chosen to live or work or study elsewhere, may connect with the feelings of being uprooted and...
Those of us who have, perhaps, chosen to live or work or study elsewhere, may connect with the feelings of being uprooted and...
- 7/27/2015
- by Katherine Matthews
- Bollyspice
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