EXPLORING SOCIAL CRISIS THROUGH FILMS

Dear Friends
here is the latest news links about my new film HARVEST OF GRIEF..

Exploring social crisis through films


www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article560220.ece

AND

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=Cr030710againstrevolution.asp

AND

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/78429/for-its-farmers-punjab-now.htm

warm regards


anwar jamal
PS: and pls check www.harvestofgrief.com

HARVEST OF GRIEF ( NEW FILM )

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

Blessed with agricultural abundance, Punjab is a land of plenty... plenty of grief. The state government does not want you to know that Punjab's farmers are killing themselves, driven to despair by mounting indebtedness and the rising cost of cultivation. This film brings out the stark dichotomy of a once propsperous state whose farm output is still second to none, but where small and landless farmers are being pushed to the brink of grinding poverty.

Mechanisation, indisciminate use of fertilisers and pesticides, rapid soil depletion, rising seed prices, and the vice-like grip of loan sharks have landed Punjab in a severe agricultural crisis.Suicides by famers are fast becoming the norm, leaving in its trail widows and orphans grappling with an uncertain future.

The Green Revolution has pushed Punjab agriculture into the red. The countryside is bleeding and its proud farmers are wilting. Is there a way out of this morass?

Harvest of Grief explores the real picture...

Harvest Of Grief (new film)

Dear Friends,
Sending you some clippings from the press after the 1st screening of our new film 'HARVEST OF GRIEF"
in CHANDIGARH (Punjab) on 8th March 2010.
warm regards
anwar jamal


http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-sangrur-wives-and-daughters-get-left-behind/588542/0

http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/23985/38/

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100309/punjab.htm#8

http://www.india-forums.com/news/article.asp?id=233866

http://www.ndtv.com/news/cities/film-on-farmers-suicides-released-in-punjab-17395.php

http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-66490.html

http://newshopper.sulekha.com/film-on-farmer-suicides-released-in-punjab_news_1154934.htm

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/film-on-farmer-suicides-released-in-punjab_100331758.html

"THE DREAM OF A DARK NIGHT "

Just created my blog today .. will start writing here soon .. as I am little busy in final EDIT of my new film "THE DREAM OF A DARK NIGHT"..
warmly
anwar jamal