SHADES
by Varadraj Swami
Official Selection
2010 SHORT FILM FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES
FESTIVAL DU FILM DE STRASBOURG 2010
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Director: Varadraj swami
Producer: Anwarul haque khan
Writer: Balajee tiwari,Varadraj Swami, Shahzad Ahmad
Music: Manoj Singh
Genre: Fiction
Country: India
Duration: 15 minutes
Original Format: DV. PAL
Leading Actress: Reema sen gupta
Leading Actor: Brijesh jha
Photography: Pawan choudhry
Art Direction: varadraj Swami, shahzad Ahmad
Editing: Balajee Tiwari
Synopsis: The film Shades highlights those aspects of poverty which compels the low and order to think. A poor woman does not have enough money to hire a vehicle to carry the dead body of her daughter from the post mortem office, sells the dead body. When the ward boy carries the dead body away, her younger daughter asks for the clothes which is on the dead body. The film shows the pathetic and intense nature of poverty that some of our people have become a victim to.
Director’s note: It’s not new matter that the dead body has been selling by the people of medical college and hospital in the whole world. Today somebody donate their eyes. There are so many intellectual, who donate his body for research proposes of medical laboratory after his death. Its matter of independent thought a person; it’s not happen due to poverty and helplessness of their life. But, when dead body has sold by any person, although he wants to do funeral work that dead body, and he is helpless, it’s shameful for any country.
A shades is not imaginary story, on the contrary it has happened in front of my eyes, in my country India. Before Making of this film, I searched very deeply and found that, it’s not new event. Such type of incident is always happening in medical college and postmortem rooms of our country here and there.
It was not need to make a film on such topic. To look the mouth of a poor girl who said that. “Please give me that cloth, which has worn dead body, because I have no extra cloth, this cloth is mine.” It was very painful situation, which had happened in front of my eyes. That’s why I decided to make film on this topic, because of our leader and dictator are always trying to cover it from their sweet and oily speeches. They are trying to spread out this message in the whole world that we are going for great country, but it’s not realty. Actually they are real robber of our country; they are only doing loot of public property and wealth part of poor person. And they eating and sleeping only nothing doing any work for progress of our country.
The merciful and sad matter it that, there are no clothes to wear some people in our country India today. A large number of people helplessly live and sleep also on the footpaths and empty land of government road areas. When these type of situation in 2010 in India... even who is responsible for that? From 1947 after independency of our country to till now the valley of richness and poverty which is created by the government, why they could not fulfill it?
I visited and saw in postmortem houses. How kind of our greedy doctors fulfill the formality of the file of the dead body only greediness of some money.
We can’t cover this truth that, what is the reason that to open grave and send dead body after six and fifteenth month ago for forensic test in our country. The example of this duty less condition of government site can’t see any country perhaps.
