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WAR & PEACE
/ JANG AUR AMAN
A Film by Anand Patwardhan
"The film itself is a tour de force, beautifully shot and often darkly funny and much more riveting than the dry subject matter might suggest." Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, UK
"War and Peace" has a riveting intelligence all its own and earns its epic title. Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
“We should listen to our voices of dissent
for our own sake and for the sake of our children and their children.
War and Peace is that voice’s most eloquent expression. Which
is why it should be seen by everyone everywhere. In schools, in colleges,
in factories, on television”
Anil
Dharker, The Times of India
"A frightening examination of the continuing confrontation between nuclear neighbours India and Pakistan. Narrated in quiet yet passionate terms…" David Stratton, Variety
"Perhaps
the most important film in this year's Berlin Film Festival" Reuters
Filmed
over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the USA
- WAR & PEACE
/ JANG AUR AMAN is an epic documentary journey of peace activism
in the face of global militarism and war. Triggered by macabre scenes
of jubilation that greeted nuclear testing in the Indian sub-continent,
WAR & PEACE / JANG AUR AMAN is dramatically framed by the murder
of Mahatma Gandhi. Fifty years after his death memories of Gandhi seem
like a mirage that never was, created by our thirst for peace and our
very distance from it.
[130 minutes
/ Color / 2002]
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Awards
* Grand Prize, Earth Vision Global Environment
Festival, Tokyo, 2002
* International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI), Sydney Film Festival, 2002
* Best Film/Video, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2002
* International Jury Prize, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2002
* Gold Award, Indian Documentary Producers' Association, 2002
* Best Documentary, International Video Festival, Kerala, 2003
* Best Documentary, Karachi International Film Festival, 2003
* Silver Dhow, Zanzibar International Film Festival, 2003
* Best Non-Fiction, National Film Awards, India, 2004
War and Peace releases in Mumbai Cinemas