Father, Son and Holy War by Anand Patwardhan

Father, Son and Holy War (1995) In a politically polarized world, universal ideals are rare. In India, as elsewhere, the vacuum is filled by religious zeal. Minorities are made scapegoats of every calamity as nations subdivide into religious and ethnic zones, each seemingly eager to annihilate the other or extinguish itself on the altar of martyrdom. The film explores in two parts the possibility that the psychology of violence against “the other” may lie in male insecurity, itself an inevitable product of the very construction of “manhood.”

About Anand Patwardhan: A Retrospective

Anand Patwardhan is one of India’s most acclaimed documentary filmmakers, known for over five decades of fearless, politically engaged cinema. His films are both chronicles of resistance and cinematic interventions that confront the silences of official history, and have inspired generations of activists and filmmakers worldwide.

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