ABSTRACT
Saturated with almost chromatic images, and a powerfully evocative play of silence and sound, reminiscent of Uski Roti, Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan too narrates a day in the lives of a family in a village in Punjab. Shot in just 45 days in a village near Bhatinda, Punjab, and funded by the National Film Development Corporation, the film became the first Punjabi language film to premiere and compete at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and went on to win critical acclaim both nationally and internationally. Since the mid-2000s, in conjunction with the shift from a Nehruvian developmentalist paradigm to a neoliberal context, the Bombay film industry has witnessed a dramatic corporatisation and regulation of production and finance practices. The sound design in the film further plays a key role in containing and delineating the space-time axis as the film seeks to lend representation to the listlessness, the sheer helplessness, of Dalit life, both in rural and urban contexts.
