Creative Minds – IFFK Special – Director Raj Amit Kumar speaks about his film Unfreedom (Blemished light) and his take on identity and violence.
“Blemished Light” and velociraptors and the scathing takedown of inflexible patriarchy
Blemished Light is like a velociraptor.
"Come again?"
Remember Jurassic Park? Dr. Grant tells this kid that velociraptor's are smart, that they hunt in packs. One raptor will distract the prey from the front, but the attack doesn't come from the front: it comes from the raptors that had been hidden on the sides.
We see this in the film No Country For Old Men. The d...
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Unfreedom is a bold and bracing film, featuring an extraordinarily compelling and humanistic performance from Banerjee.
The Indian subcontinent is a fractious, factionalized region, but the criminalization of homosexuality is an unfortunate constant. Of course, there are violent extremists who seek to further impose their strict Islamist agenda on those they deem unbelievers or apostates. In his split narrative following a closeted lesbian’s desperate attempt to find love and a Muslim terror...
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‘Unfreedom’ special preview at the Portland Film Festival
Blemished Light, a thoughtful and provocative Indian thriller written, produced and directed by Raj Amit Kumar, will be having a special preview in North America at the upcoming Portland Film Festival on Saturday, August 30th with a Midnight Screening at the Mission Street Theater.
Tickets are $10 in advance or at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased through Cascad...
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“Unfreedom” a Thought-Provoking Film from Dark Frames
In New York, an angry and violent MohammedHusain (Bhanu Uday) arrives imprisoned by his past. His mission is to kidnap and kill a peaceful Muslim scholar, Fareed Rahmani (Victor Banerjee).
On the other side of the world in New Delhi, Leela Singh (Preeti Gupta) is a homosexual girl who kidnaps her bisexual lover, Sakhi (Bhavani Lee), intending to marry her and live happily ev...
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Thinking outside of convention. Unfreedom breaks all the “rules”.
When a film is “banned” by the Censor Board of Film Certification, you know you are onto something. Well, that is exactly the case with Raj Amit Kumar’s film Unfreedom.
Homosexuality.
Islam.
Thinking outside of convention.
Unfreedom breaks all the “rules”.
The film follows two different lives, the storyline pivoting on a female same-sex relationship and the d...
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Classified as “too controversial” for release in India, Unfreedom will release in North American theatres on the 29th of May 2015
When a film is “banned” by the Censor Board of Film Certification, you know you are onto something. Well, that is exactly the case with Raj Amit Kumar's film Unfreedom.
Homosexuality.
Islam.
Thinking outside of convention.
Unfreedom breaks all the “rules”.
The film follows two different lives, the storyline pivoting on a female same-sex relationship and the d...
More
Unfreedom – India’s Banned Movie
When a film is “banned” by the Censor Board of Film Certification, you know you are onto something. Well, that is exactly the case with Raj Amit Kumar’s film Unfreedom.
Homosexuality.
Islam.
Thinking outside of convention.
Unfreedom breaks all the “rules”.
The film follows two different lives, the storyline pivoting on a female same-sex relationship and the...
More
Banned in India; ‘Unfreedom’ to Have U.S. Premiere
Unfreedom juxtaposes two powerful and unflinching contemporary stories about religious fundamentalism and intolerance. Shifting between New York and New Delhi, one tale follows a Muslim terrorist who kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar in order to silence him, while the other charts the travails of a young woman whose devout father tries to force her into an arranged marriage,...
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