Social movement and Parallel cinema in India

                                    Parallel cinema in India

           Topic - social movement and parallel cinema in India.

              Parallel cinema is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal, in the 1950s an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema. It is known as " Art cinema" and social centric films.

             

              Parallel cinema addressing various issues like exploitation, class and class conflicts, poverty, landlord and workers problem, unemployment etc. In which one is social setup, and feudal system. Feudal system is  came in 50 to 60 in parallel cinema. In which Shayam Bengal is well known figure. He made many good movies. Movie Ankur and Nishant both are best.                 

            

             Ankur means the seeding and indeed this film was a seed to the parallel movement in films that ran in 70's and 80's. It 's a wonderful depiction of the reality which existed then and even today in some remote parts of in which we find.

         

           Nishant is also based on zamindari. It shows the feudalism in India, and exploitation of villagers.

            

         So this kind of problems we also find in contemporary movies like Khosla ka Ghosla directed by Dibakar Banerjee in 2006 and Peepli live directed by Mahmood Farooqui and Anusha Rizvi in the year 2010. In the movie khosla ka  Ghosla shows that how middle class man tires half heartedly to get his land back from a swimding property dealar. And in peepli live the problem of farmers related with land and farmer's threat to end his life.

         

     So, this kind of eye opener movies shows the problems of  middle class , but in which how political party, Government, and in contemporary time businessman played their role.Many movement also based on it.