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With the National Award Winning story of a young girl learning to live her life amidst calamities, Rima Das's movie Village Rockstars makes it to the Oscar nominations.
With the National Award Winning story of a young girl learning to live her life amidst calamities, Rima Das’s movie Village Rockstars makes it to the Oscar nominations.
Village Rockstars, an interesting new movie written, edited, co-produced and directed by Rima Das, has been named as India’s official contender for the 91st Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category. Apart from it being an Assamese film, there is another good news for the state. Norway’s official contender – What will People Say has Adil Hussain, an Assamese actor as the protagonist. That makes two for Assam at this Oscar nominations.
Village Rockstars having won the National Award earlier this year, had received a good amount of attention, but was hungry for more. I believe its beauty lies in its simplicity. The very ‘real’ setting of the film and its focus on the dreams of a ten-year old girl capture the audience’s heart. This year it has received world wide acclaim at International Film Festivals, some of them being the Toronto international Film Festival 2017, Cannes Film Festival 2017, Cairo International Women’s Film Festival in Egypt and many more.
A very brief synopsis of the film for you all, taken from Rima Das’s own website as she describes her movie the best.
Dhunu is in a group of real Village Rock stars. Growing up in deprivation, she learns to manage her life within surroundings of hostile natural calamities and weaving dreams of owing a guitar!
This movie is special, having as it does a young child protagonist who is a girl in tough circumstances and a woman director. With women making it big we hope to celebrate India at the Oscars with an extra twinkle in our eyes this year.
Watch the trailer here!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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