NMML releases new film on Bhagat Singh

Released on: July 14, 2008, 11:16 pm

Press Release Author: Deepak Gupta

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Press Release Summary: The documentary is based on meticulous research and
creatively uses rare documents as visuals shot at various available repositories.
Visuals have also been shot at Lahore, Banga (birth place of Bhagat Singh), Kolkata,
Kanpur, Amritsar and Delhi.

Press Release Body: A documentary on Bhagat Singh titled INQILAB was previewed and
released on July 13, 2008 at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML)
Auditorium. The documentary has been produced by the NMML in collaboration with
ANHAD and has been scripted and directed by Gauhar Raza. Well known actor and social
activist Rahul Bose released the DVD of the documentary and Dr. Karan Singh, Vice
Chairman of the NMML presided over the function.
The 40-minute documentary traces the course of Bhagat Singh\'s life and provides rare
insights in the context of India\'s freedom struggle. It weaves through the
biographical turning points to construct Bhagat Singh\'s dream of a free,
egalitarian, socialist and multicultural India.
Parts of the documentary contain narration by Zohra Sehgal, Suchitra Gupta and Sarah
Hashmi. Apart from this a galaxy of well known social activists, intellectuals and
historians, including Swami Agnivesh, Kuldeep Nayyar, Prof. Bipan Chandra, Prof.
V.P. Dutt, Prof. K.N. Panikkar, Jagmohan Singh, Prof. Shantha Sinha, Prof. Chaman
Lal, Prof. Urvashi Butalia, Dr S. Irfan Habib, Kamla Bhasin and Arpana Kaur, have
also narrated parts of the script.
The documentary is based on meticulous research and creatively uses rare documents
as visuals shot at various available repositories. Visuals have also been shot at
Lahore, Banga (birth place of Bhagat Singh), Kolkata, Kanpur, Amritsar and Delhi.
Manu Kohli in her melodious voice has sung \'Bhagat Singh\'s\' Ghodi in the
documentary. The Ghodi in Punjabi language was composed by students of DAV College,
Lahore just after Bhagat Singh\'s execution and even now is part of folk tradition on
both sides of the border.
The documentary is produced as a part of the year-long celebrations organised by the
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in connection with the 100th birth anniversary of
Shaheed Bhagat Singh, 60 years of India\'s independence and 150 years of the great
upheaval of 1857.
Many eminent personalities like Dr. Karan Singh, Zohra Sehgal, Mridula Mukherjee,
Rahul Bose, Gauhar Raza, Shabnam Hashmi, Swami Agnivesh were present on this
occasion.


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