Film Screening: SOZ - A Ballad of Maladies

 

SoCA Armouries, Performance Hall, 37 University Avenue East

 

Of folk, rock and hip-hop, the Film is a portrait of different cultural practitioners whose work engages with the political upheavals and its social costs in contemporary Kashmir. The Film is a glance into the collective memory of a people and the expressions of its history to understand the emerging voices of resistance and their resonance in the world’s most heavily militarized zone. In a journey through the metamorphoses of Kashmir’s traditional art practices into its contemporary arts of resistance, the Film unfolds a transformed cultural fabric of the valley, which departs from the notion of Kashmir as a ‘paradise’.

 

 

Best Documentary, International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, Trivandrum

Best Documentary, Whatashort Independent International Film Festival, New Delhi

Screened at World Music and Independent Film Festival, Virginia

Screened at Singapore South Asian International Film Festival

 

 

Tushar  Madhav  is  interested  in  the  geopolitics  of  contemporary  and  folk  art  and  has independently  shot  and  edited  documentaries  around  the  theme.  He also  conducts workshops  on  finding  audio-visual  alternatives  for  storytelling,  documentation  and media advocacy programmes with students, university professors and organizations that work with juvenile criminals and underprivileged girls.

 

 

Sarvnik  Kaur  is  a  Mumbai  based  screenplay  writer.  She’s  been  working  in  the  Hindi Film industry for the past 5 years. Her first novel ‘Where Arrows Meet’ was published in 2012.  She is  an  alma  mater  of  Mass  Communication  Research  Centre,  Jamia  Millia Islmia University.

 

Runtime: 84 minutes

Language: Urdu/Hindi (with English Subtitles)

Country: India