And Miles to Go... (1967)
Director: S. Sukhdev; Producer: S. Sukhdev; Cinematographer: K. Vaikunth, K. Ghanekar
Duration: 00:14:06; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 118.906; Saturation: 0.000; Lightness: 0.424; Volume: 0.202; Cuts per Minute: 14.537; Words per Minute: 34.038
Summary: Sukhdev’s first major propaganda film ‘dedicated to all the forces of rationalist thought that are opposed to the path of violence’. After a parallel montage of stereotypical rich/poor oppositions, the camera cuts to the face of the film-maker looking angry. After some shots of street violence in negative images, a voice declaims ‘The people speak with the voice of history’. After some fast cuts of a police blockade and sounds of gunfire comes the film’s message calling for rational thought: the real enemy is greed and corruption, not the State.
Made with cooperation of: Vasant Desai, K. Ghanekar, Zul Vellani, K. Vaikunth, Shyam Benegal, Manjit Kumar
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This film is dedicated to all forces of rational thought...
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Sukhdev’s first major propaganda film ‘dedicated to all the forces of rationalist thought that are opposed to the path of violence’. After a parallel montage of stereotypical rich/poor oppositions, the camera cuts to the face of the film-maker looking angry. After some shots of street violence in negative images, a voice declaims ‘The people speak with the voice of history’. After some fast cuts of a police blockade and sounds of gunfire comes the film’s message calling for rational thought: the real enemy is greed and corruption, not the State.
The sun rises as a backdrop to the mills. Still faces of workers. The view of Girangaon the industrial centre of the city seen from a western sea-facing home. A couple sleeps.
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A party on a Bombay roof-top, Sukhdev jives.
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A ritual performed by the Potraj community, a subsect of the Maang/Matang Samaj.
An energetic montage pitting the dance party against the whipping ritual, with Sukhdev's trademark rapid zoom ins and outs. The montage begins to include faces and images we have seen thus far. Sukhdev appears in Close-up as the music and the partygoers and the montage gets frenzied. Freeze. Silence.
A long pan across over 200 people, mostly women waiting in line with empty tins for rationed Kerosene.
A strike by bank insurance employees union, among others on a rainy day in Bombay. Police Bandobast at Kalaghoda in-front of Jehangir art gallery and Esplanade mansion. Sunrise over the mills again. A raised fist. Statue for the martyrs of the Samyukta Maharastra movement at Hutatma chowk/Flora Fountain. Commentary over rainy day bandobast and protest. "Man must summon the forces of rational thought".
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Sunrise over the mills again. A raised fist. Statue for the martyrs of the Samyukta Maharastra movement at Hutatma chowk/Flora Fountain Voice over rainy day bandobast and protest. "Man must summon the forces of rational thought".
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