Shooting of documentary on Orwell’s birthplace in Motihari begins
Shooting of the first documentary film on legendary British author George Orwell began at his birthplace in Motihari town of Bihar Wednesday, the head of a committee dedicated to the commemoration of the author said.
Mukherjee said the documentary film was directed by noted filmmaker Vishwajeet Mukherjee.
“The documentary would focus on Orwell’s birthplace in Motihari, and the close relationship the author had with Mahatma Gandhi and his first Satyagraha movement,” he said.
Motihari is the district headquarters of East Champaran, the site of Gandhi’s first Satyagraha or rights movement in 1917, which was a protest against the exorbitant taxes imposed on indigo farmers by the British government. That movement came to be known as the Champaran Satyagraha.
Vishwajeet Mukherjee is assisted by a team of technical experts from Mumbai. The documentary will be of 25 minutes’ duration.
The director said he has used material from the library of Delhi University in his research. He also contacted members of Orwell’s family living in England, and interviewed them for the documentary.
Debapriya Mukherjee told IANS over telephone that his film would focus on the neglected birthplace of George Orwell.
Can anyone enlighten me on ‘the close relationship the author had with Mahatma Ghandi and the first Satyagraha movement’?
I can’t recall it offhand.
In Scotland we have the cult of Robert Burns and he has been shanghaied by Communists, Socialists, Scottish Nationalists, Jacobites, Hanoverian loyalists, right-wing American Republicans, Greens, etc.
One hopes GO is not going down the same path.
Denis Frize