Date:11/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/11/stories/2008081158810200.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Watch film on Binayak Sen today

Special Correspondent

The screening will be at 5.30 p.m. at the Centre for Films and Drama

Binayak Sen with tribal children

Bangalore: Human rights campaigner Binayak Sen has been in a jail in Chhattisgarh since May 2007.

A year later, Ajay T.G., filmmaker and freelance journalist, who has made a documentary on Dr. Sen, was arrested. He was released earlier this month.

Now Bangaloreans have a chance to view the film on Dr. Sen made by Mr. Ajay and his other short films. Vikalp Bengaluru, Alternative Law Forum (ALF) and Pedestrian Pictures have arranged a screening and discussion of his films on August 11.

The screening of Anjam, film on Dr. Sen, will be followed by screening of four other films directed by Mr. Ajay. Hathaure Wala (Man with the Hammer) is the portrait of an 80-year-old blacksmith who works in the shadow of the Bhilai steel plant in Chhattisgarh. The other films are Jeet, Heads and Tales and Safar.

After the screening, there will be a presentation by Ramachandra Guha on the cycle of violence in Chhattisgarh. Arvind Narrain of ALF to will speak on the threats to human rights defenders with laws such as the Chhattisgarh Special Security Act and the Karnataka Control of Organised Crime Act. This will be followed by an open-house discussion.

The screening will be at 5.30 p.m. at the Centre for Films and Drama (CFD), 5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road. For more details, call 9845766808 or 9886340000.