Gangor

Gangor is a 2010 multilingual, Independent film directed by Italo Spinelli. The Italian production is based on a Bangla short story "Choli Ke Peeche" (Behind the Bodice) by Mahasweta Devi. The film was shot in West Bengal in India with dialogues in Bengali, Santhali and English. The film was later dubbed into Italian. At the 5th Rome Film Festival where the cast of the film got a standing ovation at the film's screening.^[2]

Gangor
Poster of Gangor
Directed by	Italo Spinelli
Screenplay by	Antonio Falduto Italo Spinelli
Story by	Mahasweta Devi
Produced by	Angelo Barbagallo Vinod Kumar Isabella Spinelli
Starring	Priyanka Bose Adil Hussain Samrat Chakrabarti Seema Rahmani Tillotama Shome
Cinematography	Marco Onorato
Edited by	Jacopo Quadri
Music by	Iqbal Darbar Sahil Sultanpuri (lyrics)
Release dates	31 October 2010 (2010-10-31) (Rome)[1] 11 March 2011 (2011-03-11)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Bengali

The film won the Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the New Jersey Independent South Asian Film Festival.^[3] The film won the NETPAC Jury award at the 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival 2011.^[4] The film won the top award named after Filipino director Lino Brocka at the 13th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Philippines.^[5]

Plot

Upin, a veteran photojournalist comes to Purulia in West Bengal to report on the violence against the poor tribal women in the impoverished region. There he comes across Gangor breast-feeding her child. He photographs her using one of the pictures for his news report. The picture triggers a backlash as she is shunned by the villagers. The policemen take her forcibly to the police station and gang rape her. In the meantime, Upin realizes his folly and haunted by the hushed-up violence travels back to Purulia to look for her. Gangor is no longer there and no one knows her whereabouts. Determined to find her Upin presses on his search and one night meets her, now a prostitute. Gangor asks him to photograph her again taking off her blouse to reveal how her body was mutilated by the policemen during the gang-rape. Upin runs away from her falling on the railway track and coming under the wheels of the train. As the incident comes to the attention media, Gangor’s case reaches court. On the day of the hearing of her case, a group of tribal women led by activist Medha take off their blouses on the court premises to mark their protest against police brutality.^[3][6][7]

Cast

• Priyanka Bose as Gangor
• Adil Hussain as Upin
• Samrat Chakrabarti as Ujan
• Tillotama Shome as Medha
• Seema Rahmani as Shital
• Vikas Shrivastav as Daroga
• Ashok Kumar Beniwal as Police Inspector

References

1. "Indian Film 'Gangaur' Competes at Rome Film Festival". outlookindia.com/. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
2. "Standing ovation for 'Gangor'". Times of India. 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
3. "Gritty Indian art-house film Gangor sweeps awards in America". First Post. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
4. "'Gangor' Wins Jury Award at Asian Film Fest". India West. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
5. "Gangor wins Lino Brocka Award". Times of India. 20 November 2011. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
6. "Gangor -- Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 27 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
7. "Movie Review:Gangor". Slice of Real Life. 3 December 2011. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2015.

External links

• Gangor at IMDb