NAME OF THE MOVIE: Anhey Ghorhey da Daan (Alms for the Blind Horse) DIRECTED BY: Gurvinder Singh
DURATION
112 mins
YEAR
2011
COUNTRY
India
LANGUAGE
Punjabi
The film is set in a village in the outskirts of Bathinda city where villagers work in the fields of the local landlord. It is a village where people are trying hard to make peace with their existence. Daily rituals betray their simmering anger and their helplessness. The landlord has apparently sold his plots to an industry which has demolished the house of one of the villagers who refuses to vacate it. In a refined balladic manner, this atmosphere-driven film tackles the fate of the repressed family in the village. The old and ill father joins a villagers’ protest against the landlord responsible for demolishing his house. His son Melu is a rickshaw driver in a nearby town. The rickshaw pullers have gone on a strike that has turned violent. Melu, injured during a labour strike, takes to drinking and wandering the streets. On the night of the lunar eclipse, some gunshots are heard and the village is impregnated with tension. Poor and marginalized, the characters silently but emphatically emanate restlessness and discontent.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Gurvinder Singh is an Indian film director. He is best known for his Punjabi language films Anhe Ghore Da Daan, and Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction) which premiered at Venice and Cannes Film Festival respectively. In 2016, he was invited by a Turkish production house to direct a short film ''Infiltrator'' (16 mins) as part of an international anthology of ten short films from ten countries, titled \"In The Same Garden\". The anthology premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2016. He made an experimental film based on the short stories of the Colombian writer Garbriel Garcia Marquez as part of a workshop with the students of acting at the FTII. The film titled ''Sea of Lost Time'' (45 mins) premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2019.
PERSONNEL
Cinematographer
Satya Rai Nagpaul
Editor
Ujjwal Chandra
Production Designer
Pankaj Dhimaan
Sound
Mandar Kulkarni. Ajay Kumar P.B., Rajan Nalagarh
Colorist
Xavier Joseph
Producer(s)
National Film Development Corporation of India
