Films of the Spirit

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

Ghatashraddha, (Kannada)

(144 min; 1977; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Girish Kasaravalli

Set in a rural orthodox Brahmin Karnataka village, Kasaravalli’s first feature film tells the story of a child widow through the eyes of a young boy. Yamuna a young widow stays in an agrahara with her father Udupa, who runs a Veda Pathshala. Nani, the new entrant to the school likes her. Yamuna befriends the village school teacher and becomes pregnant. Soon the villagers find out and terming it “immoral” they decide to outcast her by performing the Ghatashraddha ritual

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility; and National Film Archive, Pune)

Event starts on Thursday, 13 February 2020 at 05:30 hrs

Type

Films of the Spirit

Dates

13 Feb 2020, 05:30 AM

Venue

Films of the Spirit