non-screening of GANASATHRU

നേരത്തെ അറിയിച്ചത് പോലെ 09.02.2008 നു "ഗണശത്രു" പ്രദര്‍ശിപ്പിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയാതിരുന്നതില്‍ ഖേദിക്കുന്നു. 16.02.2008 നു "the day i became a woman" (ഇറാന്‍/ മാര്‍സിയെ മെഷ്കിനി) പ്രദര്‍ശിപ്പിക്കുന്നതാണ്.

WEEKLY SCREENING 09.02.2008

GANASHATHRU (Enemy of the People)

Satyajit Ray

1989/100 min./Color/Bengali

The film is an adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People.It is set in a small town in Bengal. Dr. Ashoke Gupta (Soumitra Chatterjee) is the head of a town hospital. Gupta's younger brother, Nisith (Dhritiman Chatterjee), is the head of the committees running the hospital and a temple. Both were built by a local Industrialist. The temple is also a big tourist attraction.Dr. Gupta is convinced that the holy water of the temple is contaminated due to faulty pipe-laying. It is causing an epidemic in the town. He warns his brother Nisith. Nisith, the Industrialist and other town officials reject the idea that holy water might be the cause of the epidemic. They refuse to close the temple to carry out the repairs. Dr. Gupta wants to write an article in the newspaper to warn people, but giving-in to the pressure from the powerful people, the editor refuses to publish it.Left with no alternative, Dr. Gupta organises a public meeting that is also sabotaged. And Dr. Gupta is proclaimed an enemy of the people.

As Ray commented in an interview with Andrew Robinson, his biographer:"I found that for once one could play with human faces and human reactions, rather than landscapes, Nature in its moods, which I have done a lot in my films. Here I think it is the human face, the human character which is predominant."

09.02.2008
Saturday
6 pm
LIBRARY HALL