The tremors of this demolition are felt by Dharma’s neighbours, including the family that is at the centre of the story. The film opens with the house of Dharma being bulldozed by a powerful landlord who has sold the land to an industry. Yet encapsulation is probably an inadequate and even inaccurate word to describe this debut film of director Gurvinder Singh.įor Anhey Ghorey is not so much a tapestry, but a number of threads hanging down a wire, even as the breeze around them threatens to rip these threads apart. Here is a film encapsulating a day in the life of a Mazhabi Sikh family, who are ranked the lowest in the caste hierarchy. About those marginal men and women whose very existence is of little meaning for those who keep these people in the fringes. Rarely, if ever, was a story told about the people who are not any of the above. For a while now, the Hindi film industry in India, popularly known as Bollywood, has been projecting a certain version of Punjabi culture-gaudily-dressed bhangra dancers, songs laced with Punjabi phrases or dashing heroes–self-assured, upwardly mobile and often given to crass humour.īased on a Gurdial Singh novel of the same name, Anhey Ghorey breaks that pattern with grating sharpness. The language of the film, Punjabi, makes it an even bigger rarity. Anhey Ghorey Da Daan (Alms for the Blind Horse) isn’t a film you will watch every day.
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