in The Fourth
Jaffna Film Festival in Sri Lanka
From the Jury Composed of Safaa Elaisy
Haggag from egypt, Archana Urvashi from
south India and Mauran Muralitharan from Sri-lanka.
Good
Script , Classical Directing
We
were impressed by “Self Exile” glamorous idea. It combined four stories of
women who dedicated their lives to men. The titles of the stories are: the
daughter, the sister, the friend and the wife. The filmmaker (Arnab Middya) gave
the four parts to the same leading actress. Every part ends with a song
according to the Indian style. It is a limited budget movie maneuvering through
the Indian filmmaking elements in an attempt to escape from them
,
however, it
still has a strong impact and its classic method of narration is dominating. It
won a special mention by the Festival Jury.
The
filmmaker Arnab Middya used the face veil as well in his movie “Self Exile”, in
the fourth story of the movie about an unemployed husband and a wife who
accepts to work as a prostitute while she wears a face veil to hide, and her
husband plays the role of an Arab husband when they ride a car together. The Hindu director Arnab Middya, criticize
the common appearance of Muslims and narrate stories which are probably
inspired by real stories.In comment to what I wrote Arnab explain: In story no.4, my point is that if we want to hide our identify
then we can easily wear borkhoa or other attires wearing by that person.. and
if they perform any crime then muslims are blamed for that attire only.. nobody
become interested to identify that persons original religion, and most of the
cases we judge person on basis of his or attire or name/surname.. which is
really dangerous
Arnab
wrote his film , struggle for the production, at the end he finish his good
film which obtains many prizes and still sharing different festivals .
I
met Arnab in train station of Colombo with Vasanthi Senartane and Nuwan
jayaThilake, from first moment I consider him as a son to me, he always with charming
smile. The Three of us had good chat in the train trip
By: Safaa Elaisy Haggag
Egyptian fil Critic & Film Editor
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