Date: 14 December 2002 (Saturday)

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Venue: Feroze’s Estate Agency, opp. Hotel Chandrika, Cunningham Road, Bangalore

The discussion following the film will be led by Vasu from Karnataka Vimochana
Ranga (KVR), focusing on the sinister on-going Hindutva campaign to capture an
ancient sufi shrine – the Baba Budhangiri dargah in Chikmagalur, Karnataka. The
Hindutva forces seem bent upon converting this dargah to a Hindu temple.

Synopsis of the film:

Set at the headquarters of the RSS in Nagpur, the film is about the
indoctrination of young Hindu boys by a branch of the RSS, the foremost Hindu
fundamentalist organization in India.

“ We had entered RSS territory expecting to confirm our received images of
fascism. Instead, what we found was far more ingenious and unsettling in its
simplicity: the lure of a playground where young boys played games and the hopes
and dreams, fears and anxieties of ordinary young people as the banal face of
fundamentalism.”

~ Lalit Vachani and the Wide Eye Film team

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