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The film deserves applause for highlighting the plight of the Dalits while resisting the tendency to romanticise them as noble souls subject to oppression.
Jai Bhim Comrade is incredibly personal to who I have become, or who I am becoming. This is a film that makes me irate beyond comprehension - this is no fault of Anand Patwardhan’s three-hour behemoth of a documentary but because of how it pulls precisely zero punches in its speaking of truth to power.
Jan 28, 2012 · For over three hours Anand Patwardhan's “Jai Bhim Comrade” took us on a musical-historical journey. Beginning with the rousing voice of Vilas Ghogre, we move quickly to the police killings in ...
Jai Bhim Comrade. Synopsis After the 1997 police shooting of 10 unarmed Dalit (untouchable') protesters in Mumbai's slums, the community's rage over their 2,000 years ...
Sep 3, 2021 · Jai Bhim Comrade: Irony of caste oppression and Dalit activists’ 'tumultuous' fight. By Abid Ahmed Khan*. When I was presented this one-of-a-kind opportunity to interview renowned documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, I decided to dig deep into his cult film “Jai Bhim Comrade” which took over 14 years to make.
Jai Bhim Comrade / जय भीम कॉम्रेड 2012 | Color | 169 min For thousands of years India’s Dalits were abhorred as “untouchables,” denied education and treated as bonded labour. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India’s Constitution, led his followers […]
Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade (2011), which took more than 14 years to complete, begins by documenting the 1997 police shooting of Dalits, the Indian caste traditionally deemed to be the lowest in the social order and hence “untouchables,” at Ramabai Colony in Mumbai. The film is a painstaking account of the various ways in which the community organizes itself to continually resist ...
