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2016 film

Anatomy of Violence
Directed byDeepa Mehta
Produced byDavid Hamilton
Starring
CinematographyMaithili Venkataraman
Production
company		Hamilton Mehta Productions
Release date
  • 12 September 2016 (2016-09-12) (TIFF)
Running time93 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageHindi

Anatomy of Violence is a Canadian drama film which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Toronto-based filmmaker Deepa Mehta, the film explores the root causes leading up to the 2012 Delhi gang rape incident.

The film's script was created by a group of actors including Vansh Bhardwaj, Tia Bhatia, Janki Bisht and Seema Biswas, through improvisational exercises based on the relatively few snippets of known information about the perpetrators of the attack. Mehta chose to pursue a significant departure from her usual filmmaking style, in part because of the uncharacteristically poor reviews that greeted her previous film Beeba Boys.

Plot

In New Delhi in 2012, a group of six guys raped a young woman and beat her male friend up in a moving bus. On a fictitious reenactment of the perpetrators' life, eleven actors worked together.

Cast

  • Vansh Bhardwaj
  • Janki Bisht
  • Mukti Ravi Das
  • Ramanjit Kaur
  • Jagjeet Sandhu
  • Tia Bhatia
  • Seema Biswas
  • Suman Jha
  • Mahesh Saini
  • Zorawar Shukla

Awards

Year Award Category Result Ref
2016 Toronto International Film Festival First Premiere Nominated
2017 Human Rights Film Festival Gender-based violence in India Nominated

Reception

  • Mehta's documentary approach eventually catches up with actual broadcast material, but not enough to excuse the irresponsible use of point-and-shoot cameras that flattens the film's narrative and visual richness.
  • Formally and philosophically, Anatomy of Violence is the biggest gamble of Mehta's career since it foresees uncharted territory for cinema. Is it a docudrama, mockumentary, hybrid, or true crime film? All of these and none of them make up the anatomy of violence. It's Mehta-fiction, to be precise.

References

  1. "Anatomy of Violence". Now, 31 August 2016.
  2. "Anatomy of Violence studies roots of Indian gang rape: review". Toronto Star, Bruce DeMara 25 Nov. 2016
  3. "'Anatomy of Violence': Toronto Review". Screen Daily, 12 September 2016.
  4. Roy, Sudipto (5 December 2016). "Anatomy of Violence". Media India Group. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Anatomy of Violence examines the men involved in the Delhi attack". The Globe and Mail, 8 September 2016.
  6. Anatomy of Violence (2016), retrieved 24 October 2022
  7. McNeely, Michael (16 September 2016). "TIFF 2016: Anatomy of Violence Review". That Shelf. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  8. "ANATOMY OF VIOLENCE (2016) - Human Rights Film Festival - Donostia-San Sebastián". www.zinemaetagizaeskubideak.eus. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  9. Tobias, Scott (21 September 2016). "Film Review: 'Anatomy of Violence'". Variety. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  10. "Breathedreamgo - Anatomy of Violence and the shocking truth". breathedreamgo.com. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  11. Mullen, Pat (15 September 2016). "TIFF Review: 'Anatomy of Violence'". POV Magazine. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

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