The Indian Cultural Centre Film Club will screen a double feature – A Fragment of History and 15 Park Avenue – today at its New Haven, Bel Air premises from 5.30 pm.
Directed by Uma Chakravarti, A Fragment of History is a reconstructed documentary on the life of Subbalaxmi. Subbalaxmi had no formal education– but a chance incident–her grandfather’s failing eyesight led her to read the newspaper for him and paved a way for her to read and write in both Tamil and English. This early exposure to politics led to a lifelong engagement with the freedom struggle and the coming together of individual aspirations and collective struggles at a particular moment in India’s history
Meanwhile, 15 Park Avenue has been described by itacclaimed Bengali director Aparna Sen as her best film. The film is based around a girl Meethi, played by Konkona Sen Sharma who has schizophrenia. The film shows how her family tries to come to grips with her mental illness. The film stars Waheed Rahman, Shabana Azmi and Rahul Bose.
Aparna Sen said this film is based on her own personal experience of living with a mentally ill person in her family.
