Final-Film Festival-13-11-08.p65 - Directorate of Film Festivals

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENTI have been inspired by the history of the struggle of peoplein general from the very youth, thanks to the strong leftistinclination of my family. It has been the driving force behind allmy creative efforts. The ahistoric perception and the anti-peoplestand taken by the leftist Government of West Bengal have beena cause of frustration and have flared up the protest in me.The way in which the Government has engaged itself inforceful eviction of farmers in the name of development; theway in which the Party (CPIM) and the state machinery havebeen used to throttle the protest of the people… made thisdocumentation inevitable… like Kino eye situation.Can really a left-led Government deny people's right toinformation? Can an elected Chief Minister put up such a showof megalomania and cheek to thrash all justice, shaming thefascists of the last century? To tell you the truth, the only wayto face these questions, the catechism, has been … Roll Camera…I feel that selection of this film in the Panorama has beenrecognition of the peasant's movement against forceful evictionnot only in the national but also in the international scenario.FILMINSTITUTIONS104