Court

Name: Court
Genre: Social Issues, Drama
Released: 2014
Duration: 116 min
Cast: Usha Bane, Pradeep Joshi, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Vivek Gomber, Vira Sathidar

Chaitanya Tamhane20141h 56mSocial Issues, Drama

Why we chose it

An ageing singer goes on trial for a song that supposedly drove a man to suicide, and in an Indian courtroom the absurdity is enough to gag free speech. This Venice prize-winning debut casts Vira Sathidar as the accused, a man who spent his life fighting caste and had never faced a camera before.

Synopsis

Folk singer, teacher and social activist Narayan Kamble is arrested in Mumbai, and the charge is startling. One of his revolutionary songs is said to have driven a sewer worker, who died in suspicious circumstances, to take his own life. As the case makes its way through a lower court and clerks shuffle papers from desk to desk, the air grows thick with something out of Kafka.