Ammi
90 minutes | 2018 | India | Hindi with English subtitles
Director: Sunil Kumar
Producer: Pedestrian Pictures
Watch the film online from October 27th - 31st 2021
Register here for Live Session: October 30th at 6:30 | Samina Mishra will be in conversation with the Director.
SYNOPSIS
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words - and never stops - at all... ~ Emily Dickinson.
Four years of hope…. Four years of waiting in vain. Ammi, still waits for her son to walk through the doors; she will never lose hope. This is one woman's fight for justice to be seen. Battered by the police, having been told by the myriad government agencies, investigating her son's disappearance, that there was nothing to be found, no evidence to suggest anyone in particular was involved, she still stands with conviction.
Since Najeeb went missing on 15, October 2016 from the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, New Delhi, there has been no progress in the investigations of the various agencies investigating the disappearance. The agencies' initial suspects, the ABVP - a right wing youth organisation were the initial prime suspects in his disappearance. But it seems that it is just as easy as that to make someone disappear when the perpetrators are the youth wing of a right wing organisation in the time of a right wing government.
THE DIRECTOR
Sunil is a documentary filmmaker and researcher. His research on the current development model of Chhattisgarh state, concentrating on Janjgir-Champa and Korba districts led to his first documentary film ‘Rice Bowl to Ashtray’.
He has assisted Anil Chamadia, a noted journalist in Hindi media, and worked as a Research Associate to Prof. Jean Dreze from 2007-09, conducting field studies, social audits, media engagement and campaigns for effective implementation of the NREGA Act. He also designed and implemented surveys with Prof. Anirban Kar at Delhi School of Economics on the nature of political and landed class in rural India.