Final Solution, Part I: Pride and Genocide
Duration: 01:15:00 "Final Solution" is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 - July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the 2002 genocide of Moslems in Gujarat. It specifically...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Hindi |
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Associated Cinema and Television
2003
India |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:ec01ddb1-a6d2-405b-bc3e-0aedce324a56 |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:15:00
"Final Solution" is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 - July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the 2002 genocide of Moslems in Gujarat. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscient of the Nazi Germany of early/mid-1930s. Part 1 of the ""Final Solution" deals with the carnage and its immediate aftermath. It examines the patterns of pre-planned genocidal violence (by right-wing Hindutva cadres), which many claim was state-supported, if not state-sponsored. The film reconstructs through eyewitness accounts the attack on Gulbarg and Patiya (Ahmedabad) and acts of barbaric violence against Moslem women at Eral and Delol/Kalol (Panchmahals) even as Chief Minister Modi traverses the state on his Gaurav Yatra. The film was banned in India by the Censor Board for several months before a massive public protest, including protest letters and illlegal pirating resulted in the lifting of the ban in October 2004. |
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| Published: | 2003 |