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Amu's just released DVD includes deleted scenes too!
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If you missed it in the theaters, here’s your chance to see this groundbreaking and controversial film based on the 1984 massacre of Sikhs in Delhi. Writer-Director Shonali Bose’s sensational feature debut, banned from television in India and censored by the Indian government, brings forth with clarity and humanity the terrible crimes perpetrated against the Sikh community by those in power in the world’s largest democracy.

Critically acclaimed at 50 international film festivals including Toronto and Berlin; Winner of 10 awards including 2 Indian National awards - this is a DVD to own – with many special features including Director Commentary, Festival Q and A’s, Making of Amu, Deleted Scenes with commentary, Making of the Film maker, Two 5.1 Dolby digital soundtracks: original and Hindi dub besides Celebrity reactions.

Says Shonali Bose, who worked in the relief camps in 1984, “We made this film so that the world would know about this crime against humanity, just as it does about Somalia, Rwanda, Iraq….” Adds Producer and husband, Bedabrata Pain, “1984 is not about the past but about the present. Because justice has still been denied 23 years later in spite of 11 enquiry commissions and a huge amount of evidence.”

The couple hope that every Indian will support their intention by buying this film not just for themselves but for their friends – Indian or foreign – “who need to know this history if India is to move forward.”

With standout performances by National Award winner Konkona Sensharma and activist Brinda Karat, this film has been praised by critics and audiences alike in its theatrical release in India, Canada and the United States.
 

Read extensive coverage of how Indian nation state has acted in a manner most apathetic when it came to massacre of Sikhs in 1984. ► Performing Kirtan Over Indira’s Body ► When A Tree Shook Delhi ► The assassination of memory ► WE EXIST! You just don't see us! ► Unless we have blood which does not boil  ► 83-yr-old tells how his son was killed by       goons in 1984 pogrom ► City of Djinns: A Photo Essay ► Has Anything Changed? ► Day after they burnt the husband, mobs      returned to kill son and son-in-law ► Revisiting 1984 Times ► Tearing Tytler ► Justice Delayed DENIED ► When one man stood up to stop the earth      from shaking ► This army general won the 1971 war for      India, in 1984 he ran to save his life

7 November, 2007
 

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