Landless (film)

Landless
Film poster
Directed byRandeep Maddoke[1]
Written byRandeep Maddoke
Produced byZindabad Trust
CinematographyRandeep Maddoke
Edited bySahib Iqbal Singh
Music byAsheesh Pandya
Running time
70 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagePunjabi

Landless is a 2018 Punjabi[2] documentary film by Randeep Maddoke, a photographer and photojournalist from Punjab, India.[2][3] This documentary film accounts the problems faced by Dalits and caste-based discrimination in their daily life. It recounts the story of the people who have faced abomination like social boycott, communal attacks by Jatts (upper caste) in Punjab. The project records the recent disturbances in the state.[4]

Background

The documentary analysis about the caste and class system in Punjab, India.[5] According to the ancient Hindu law book Manusmriti, society is divided into four Varnas; Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras and there are people who don't belongs to these Varnas, they known as Avarnas (Untouchables).[6][5] They are considered as sub-humans and are set to do the jobs considered foul and disregarded in a society, like, manual scavenging. They were not allowed get education, to enter the religious buildings, and they were not permitted to use the public spaces as Varnas. The documentary talks about Punjab, where the caste-dynamics is unlike the rest of India due to the establishment of Sikh religion in this state in the mid-1500s. The Sikh religion had no space for caste-discrimination in theory, the Gurus preached egalitarianism across all the classes and caste groups and sought for the upliftment of the classes and groups marginalised by Hinduism. This attracted the disregarded groups to Sikhism.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Landless: A film on Punjab's Dalit farmers gives the community a voice that statisticians often fail to". Firstpost. 8 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Return of the Native". The Indian Express. 10 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Trenzy.in.
  3. ^ "A Photographer's World: The Art of Randeep Maddoke". Café Dissensus. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Review: 'Landless' Disrupts the Popular Understanding of Caste and Land Relations". The Wire. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Documentary screened at PU".
  6. ^ ""Tamasha Khud Na Ban Jana Tamasha Dekhne Walon" - Jigisha Bhattacharya". Indian Cultural Forum.
  7. ^ September 10, K. SHESHU BABU says; Pm, 2017 at 6:19 (9 September 2017). "The Dera Sacha Sauda Followers And The Civil Society". Countercurrents. Retrieved 28 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)