Movie Review: 'Land Gold Women'; Star Cast: Narinder Samra, Neelam Parmar, Chris Villiers and Hassani Shapi; Writer-Director: Avantika Hari; Rating: *** 1/2 - has its heart at right place.
There is a nip in the British air. The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers.
But honour killing in 'civilized' England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.
It's astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away.
There is a nip in the British air. The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers.
But honour killing in 'civilized' England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.
It's astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away.
- 12/2/2011
- by Arun Pandit
- RealBollywood.com
Starring Narinder Samra, Neelam Parmar, Chris Villiers and Hassani Shapi
Written & Directed by Avantika Hari
There is a nip in the British air…The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers, and that too when references are made to supposedly primitive practices in the psychologically-undeveloped section of North India.
But honour killing in ‘civilized’ England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.
It’s astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away with our cynical reading of the volatile subject. The script approaches its gentle characters, a cultured Muslim family keeping its head high(and veiled, of course) in a super-cosmopolitan society that constantly threatens to blow the lid off the conservative core of the family nucleus.
Written & Directed by Avantika Hari
There is a nip in the British air…The verdant tranquility of Birmingham is torn apart by the kind of domestic violence that we read about and talk only in hushed whispers, and that too when references are made to supposedly primitive practices in the psychologically-undeveloped section of North India.
But honour killing in ‘civilized’ England? Nah! This one has got to be just one of those exaggerated dramas of the damned that come along to shock us in the movies.
It’s astonishing how quickly and expertly writer-director Avantika Hari does away with our cynical reading of the volatile subject. The script approaches its gentle characters, a cultured Muslim family keeping its head high(and veiled, of course) in a super-cosmopolitan society that constantly threatens to blow the lid off the conservative core of the family nucleus.
- 12/2/2011
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Three Indian films will be screened at the ninth East End film festival which will be held in London from April 22- 30. Bilal directed by Soura Sarangi will be shown which is a documentary about a 3 year old kid Bilal. Bilal and his brother can see perfectly well, but both their parents are blind. All four live in a 12’ x 8’ room in central Kolkata. It’s a tiny, tangible universe. Independent filmmaker Sourav Sarangi spent the best part of a year filming in this absorbing environment.
Actress Nandita Das’s debut film as a director Firaaq will also be screened at the festival. Based on a thousand true stories, Firaaq follows the life of several ordinary people, some who were victims, some who were silent observers and some perpetrators, set one month after the 2002 violence in Gujarat.
Land Gold Women directed by Avantika Hari is shot entirely on location in Birmingham.
Actress Nandita Das’s debut film as a director Firaaq will also be screened at the festival. Based on a thousand true stories, Firaaq follows the life of several ordinary people, some who were victims, some who were silent observers and some perpetrators, set one month after the 2002 violence in Gujarat.
Land Gold Women directed by Avantika Hari is shot entirely on location in Birmingham.
- 3/25/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
New Delhi, Jan 30 - Her directorial debut ‘Land Gold Women’ deals with the burning issue of honour killings and has just won a National Award, but 29-year-old Avantika Hari is finding it difficult to distribute the Britain-based drama for commercial release.
‘The film was premiered at Iffi (International Film Festival of India) and we had a couple of private screenings. We haven’t had a commercial release yet. I’m having difficulty in distributing the film,’ Avantika, who grew up in Dubai, told Ians over phone from.
‘The film was premiered at Iffi (International Film Festival of India) and we had a couple of private screenings. We haven’t had a commercial release yet. I’m having difficulty in distributing the film,’ Avantika, who grew up in Dubai, told Ians over phone from.
- 1/30/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Avantika Hari, whose maiden directorial venture Land Gold Women won a nomination recently at the Singapore Film Festival tells Jyothi Venkatesh that religion is used as a scapegoat to kill, whether it is terrorism or communism.
Avantika Hari’s film Land Woman Gold that is being shown in the Indian Panorama section of the Iffi in Goa this year, after it received a lot of accolades at the Mumbai International Film Festival in November is her debut film as a director. Avantika, who had made the film after learning all about filmmaking in London Film School, adds, “It is a film that deals with.
Avantika Hari’s film Land Woman Gold that is being shown in the Indian Panorama section of the Iffi in Goa this year, after it received a lot of accolades at the Mumbai International Film Festival in November is her debut film as a director. Avantika, who had made the film after learning all about filmmaking in London Film School, adds, “It is a film that deals with.
- 11/30/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
If cinema must entertain, it must also evoke ideas and provoke minds. But most of Indian cinema stops with titillating one’s baser senses. It is merely once in a way that a film such as “Land Gold Women” is made that not only tells a story that engages you, but also pans across and focuses on social malaises, such as, in this case, honour killing. Written, scripted and helmed by Avantika Hari, a Tamil who grew up in Dubai and now lives in Mumbai after her recent marriage with a Bollywood producer-director, the movie is a disturbing look at honour killings in Britain.
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- 11/2/2009
- by Gautaman Bhaskaran
- DearCinema.com
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