Comments on: Amu http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/ Meri duniya - bilkul filmi Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:42:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: yves http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-131872 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:06:03 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-131872 Hi Maria, I've added a link to your article on my blog, because of Shonali Bose's comments on the censorship Board position, and also for the very intereting comments it has elicited. Hi Maria,
I’ve added a link to your article on my blog, because of Shonali Bose’s comments on the censorship Board position, and also for the very intereting comments it has elicited.

]]> by: Amu - Movie « Snap Judgment http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-47303 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:53:30 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-47303 [...] Filmiholic » Blog Archive » Amu [...] […] Filmiholic » Blog Archive » Amu […]

]]> by: solarider blog » Nov84 survivors blog http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-45334 Thu, 31 May 2007 14:27:55 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-45334 [...] They also highlight a link that contains a description of the difficulties that Shonali Bose the maker of the film Amu had in trying to get her film past the Indian censors. Not because it contained nudity or violence but because the censors decreed that: Why should young people know a history that is better buried and forgotten? [...] […] They also highlight a link that contains a description of the difficulties that Shonali Bose the maker of the film Amu had in trying to get her film past the Indian censors. Not because it contained nudity or violence but because the censors decreed that: Why should young people know a history that is better buried and forgotten? […]

]]> by: mai http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43840 Thu, 24 May 2007 09:04:33 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43840 I am also a survivor of Delhi '84. My husband, my son and six other members of my family were killed. The censors are very stupid. This happened and it will never be forgotten. In my experience, young Sikhs, especially, are starving for this information, and nonSikhs are appalled when they learn about this. The truth will be known. It won't bring back the dead or unbreak our hearts, but it will never be forgotten and their deaths will not be meaningless. I am also a survivor of Delhi ‘84. My husband, my son and six other members of my family were killed.

The censors are very stupid. This happened and it will never be forgotten. In my experience, young Sikhs, especially, are starving for this information, and nonSikhs are appalled when they learn about this.

The truth will be known. It won’t bring back the dead or unbreak our hearts, but it will never be forgotten and their deaths will not be meaningless.

]]> by: Shashikant http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43821 Thu, 24 May 2007 05:23:54 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43821 I wonder why Shonali Bose took so much time for the movie release, assuming they, actually, are releasing. I watched this movie in Jan 2004. Four months later the Cogress came into power with the help of Karat's party. Film has been critical of some of Congress' leaders. Releasing the movie would have squarely jeopardized Karat's stand. I wonder why Shonali Bose took so much time for the movie release, assuming they, actually, are releasing. I watched this movie in Jan 2004. Four months later the Cogress came into power with the help of Karat’s party. Film has been critical of some of Congress’ leaders. Releasing the movie would have squarely jeopardized Karat’s stand.

]]> by: Beth http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43789 Wed, 23 May 2007 20:04:05 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43789 Oof. Reading Simran's comment leaves me all but speechless.... I am really impressed by Bose's handling of the "objectionable" lines - silence can be so powerful - and disgusted by the Censor Board's rationale, which is completely absurd. Thank you for talking about this movie - and some of its important back story. Oof. Reading Simran’s comment leaves me all but speechless…. I am really impressed by Bose’s handling of the “objectionable” lines - silence can be so powerful - and disgusted by the Censor Board’s rationale, which is completely absurd. Thank you for talking about this movie - and some of its important back story.

]]> by: Simran http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43757 Wed, 23 May 2007 13:48:45 +0000 http://filmiholic.com/2007/05/23/amu/#comment-43757 I am Sikh. I was ten years old in November 1984. My father was visiting India to attend to his father's estate, who had passed away the previous year. He was in Delhi. We lived in London. We didnt hear from him for seven days after Indira Gandhi was assassinated. When I was old enough to understand he told me of some of the things he had seen, heard of, experienced. How he hid, escaped, heard of what was happening, the smells of fire and burning flesh, all those horrors. I have since researched the events of those days, and it sent me into a deep depression to come face to face with humanity's capacity for genocidal violence. The things that happened in those days of pogrom, as the police and Congress politicians let them happen, were so bestial and evil that to even describe them makes you feel a complicity with the Satanic. Women raped in front of their children then cut open with knives, women raped with knives and sticks, children's heads smashed to pulp on the floor in front of their parents, housing blocks where hundreds of Sikh men were slaughtered in the space of an hour, blood dripping off balconies for hours like a waterfall, Sikh men women and children burnt alive, Sikh men set on fire as the pogromists laughed as they screamed and ran in pain trying to extinguish the flames, Sikh men having their intestines ripped out and their children pointing at their fathers asking their mothers 'Why are there rassi (ropes) coming from Daddy's tummy'? William Dalrymple describes how in the days afterwards the dismembered and mutilated corpses of hundreds of Sikhs lay decomposing in the Delhi sun as dogs grew fat eating their flesh. All of these things happened, and more. I have wanted to watch Amu ever since I first read a review of it a couple of years ago. But I have never been able to, because I am too frightened of the pain, horror, sadness and anger that it may trigger inside me. I don't want to be reminded of those things again. I am Sikh. I was ten years old in November 1984. My father was visiting India to attend to his father’s estate, who had passed away the previous year. He was in Delhi. We lived in London. We didnt hear from him for seven days after Indira Gandhi was assassinated.

When I was old enough to understand he told me of some of the things he had seen, heard of, experienced. How he hid, escaped, heard of what was happening, the smells of fire and burning flesh, all those horrors.

I have since researched the events of those days, and it sent me into a deep depression to come face to face with humanity’s capacity for genocidal violence. The things that happened in those days of pogrom, as the police and Congress politicians let them happen, were so bestial and evil that to even describe them makes you feel a complicity with the Satanic. Women raped in front of their children then cut open with knives, women raped with knives and sticks, children’s heads smashed to pulp on the floor in front of their parents, housing blocks where hundreds of Sikh men were slaughtered in the space of an hour, blood dripping off balconies for hours like a waterfall, Sikh men women and children burnt alive, Sikh men set on fire as the pogromists laughed as they screamed and ran in pain trying to extinguish the flames, Sikh men having their intestines ripped out and their children pointing at their fathers asking their mothers ‘Why are there rassi (ropes) coming from Daddy’s tummy’? William Dalrymple describes how in the days afterwards the dismembered and mutilated corpses of hundreds of Sikhs lay decomposing in the Delhi sun as dogs grew fat eating their flesh.

All of these things happened, and more. I have wanted to watch Amu ever since I first read a review of it a couple of years ago. But I have never been able to, because I am too frightened of the pain, horror, sadness and anger that it may trigger inside me. I don’t want to be reminded of those things again.

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