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Fandry, his first feature film, was released on February 14, 2014, Valentine's Day. Written and directed by him; the meaning of "Fandry" in the Kaikadi language is "pigu201d.<br> Somnath Avghade and Rajeshwari Kharat are stars in the film. The plot revolves around a young boy's love in the face of caste prejudice. The storyline of a teenager from a lower caste family who lives on the outskirts of Akolner, a village near Ahmednagar, who falls in love with an upper caste girl.<br>
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SEMINAR TOPIC: “Nagraj Popatlal Manjule’s Marathi Movie Fandry” By: Naveen Babu pjnaveenbabu777@gmail.com ©
Nagraj Popatlal Manjule • Nagraj Popatlal Manjule (born August 24, 1978) is an Indian film director, actor, producer, scriptwriter, and poet, who works in the Marathi film industry. • He is best known for his Marathi film Sairat and the short film Pistulya, for which he won the National Film Award for Non- Feature Film. • At the 61st National Film Awards, his film Fandry earned the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director. • Nagraj Manjule got the Bhairuratan Damani Sahitya Puraskar in 2018 for his book Unhachya Katavirudhha, a collection of Marathi poetry.
Nagraj Popatlal Manjule • Nagraj Manjule born in the Maharashtra village of Jeur, in the Solapur district. • His works are inspired by Ambedkar's thoughts and his own experiences as a Dalit growing up in rural Maharashtra. • His films have focused on the problems of members of these communities, including discrimination and bigotry by high-caste communities and the economic challenges that arise.
Nagraj Popatlal Manjuletold in an interview for Indian express daily newspaper. • “We need to talk about caste, so that there is a dialogue and it eventually ends. If we pretend that nothing wrong is happening, the sickness will only increase,” • “The irony is, if you talk about caste, you’re called casteist. Those who are actually casteist, they are never told anything. It’s a dangerous thing. If I don’t know my sickness, how can I be cured? For years, our unfair, unwanted reality has been willfully ignored. It’ll end only when you look at it. We need to address it to end it,” he told in an interview for Indian express - daily newspaper.
Nagraj Popatlal Manjule • Pistulya, his first National Award-winning short film, is based on his "felt experience." The film centers on a lower caste boy's desire to attend school and his inability to do so due to his family's poverty and his community's fundamental aversion to formal education. • Fandry, his first feature film, was released in February 2014 written and directed by him.; the meaning of "Fandry" in the Kaikadi language is "pig. " • The 66th Berlin International Picture Festival premieredNagraj Manjule's second film, Sairat. It, like Fandry and Pistulya, is concerned with caste discrimination and honour killings, which are still prevalent in many places of India. • Sairat also attempts to examine the role of women in society, with Archie (Archana Patil), the film's heroine, receiving both critical and popular praise. • The Marathi film Sairat is currently the top of all time. • Nagraj Manjule made his Hindi film directorial debut with Jhund, starring Amitabh Bachchan.
Fandry • Fandry, his first feature film, was released on February 14, 2014, Valentine's Day. written and directed by him; the meaning of "Fandry" in the Kaikadi language is "pig" • Somnath Avghade and Rajeshwari Kharat are stars in the film. The plot revolves around a young boy's love in the face of caste prejudice. • The storyline of a teenager from a lower caste family who lives on the outskirts of Akolner, a village near Ahmednagar, who falls in love with an upper caste girl. • At the Mumbai International Film Festival, the film received the Grand Jury Prize. This picture was well-received by critics. It earned the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 61st National Film Awards.
Movie Fandry Plot and review • Fandry is a fictional Marathi movie about a 13-year-old boy's love based on the life of caste inequality. • Jambhuvant Kachru Mane, also known as Jabya (Somnath Awghade), is a pre-teen who lives with his parents and two sisters in a temporary house on the boundaries of a caste-segregated village (one a widow with a toddler). • The family is from the oppressed Kaikadi community and works menial tasks to make ends meet. • The boy's father has a scared and timid attitude that upper-caste residents abuse, because of the village's caste-ridden power system. • Jabya is disillusioned by his family's situation and takes interest in school, where he has also fallen in one-sided love with Shalini (nickname: Shalu) (Rajeshwari Kharat), a upper caste girl with whom he has never spoken but tries constantly to make her to notice him.
Movie Fandry Plot and review • The film begins with Jabya attempting to catch a bird (the Black Sparrow) in the woods with a slingshot. However, the Red Wattled Lapwing (Titawi), whose call is said to bring bad luck, is heard throughout the film. • Jabya and his schoolmate Pirya (Suraj Pawar) keep trying to catch the bird for an unknown cause that is eventually revealed in the film. According to local folklore, sprinkling the ash obtained by burning the black sparrow on someone hypnotizes them into falling in love with the person who do so. • Jabya also befriends Chankya (Nagraj Manjule), a bicycle mechanic who sees himself in the youngster. • Chankya had once married a woman, but her brother forcibly taken her away and left him brutally beaten. Since then, he has left family life in favour of spirituality, mysticism, and alcohol. • So obviously have another inter caste love story going back, inside the bigger story. Jabya wants Chankya's help in winning his love, which Chankya easily provides. • Chankya himself may have proposed sprinkling the ash of a • black sparrow on Shalu to Jabya. However, the plan is only carried out in Jabya's dreams.
Movie Fandry Plot and review • And Jabya’s father doesn’t want him being around his son, because he probably ashamed of seeing his son with other outcaste. • Jabya and Pirya searching for the black sparrow many times throughout the movie but they actually never catch one. • Jabya and his family are exploited and dehumanized by the villagers over and over again. Because of that Jabya is embarrassed to be seen with his family especially when it comes to Shalu. • There are many scenes that start with cheerful and ends on a sad and depressing quote. And there are many scenes that we can see all this hate is pressing on their shoulders. • Generally Fandry is a calm movie with a small outburst at specific situations.
Movie Fandry Plot and review • It’s like a barrel that is slowly filled with water sometimes it shaking a bit and some water spilled but only at the end barrel overflows. • And Jabya is the one who reaches at the tipping point, who has enough of the discrimination and it becomes the climax of the movie. • It is important to know what the climax of the movie is established. • Jabya and his family constantly belittle by the people who lives in the village, the whole family is called worthless all the time. • Jabya and his family has been instructed to find and chase away the pigs that are bothering the villagers. Chasing away the pigs is again another menial job that has to be done by lower caste, the search and chase away became big event for the whole village and another occasion for Jabya to get humiliated. He cannot hide any more. • The pigs were hiding among the rocks in front of the school where Jabya was studying. The show, which ends with the catch of a pig, is watched by all students, including Shalu. The level of Humiliation to Jabya and his family was reaching its peak.
Movie Fandry Plot and review • When the family finally takes the pig away we witness how the mentioned barrel flows over, Jabya reacts and fight back, he screams and throw stones at all those who called him, and his family "pig". And those stones meet targets. • And the final stone that he throws is directly approaching the camera and that for us (the viewers).With that film ends.
Conclusion • It’s a very powerful statement. • Fandry has a social purpose. • it shows that caste is used as an excuse to degrade human beings , with the final stone that hits us as viewers , we also have to ask ourselves who is the Fandry (pig)? . • Jabya finally realises that he is the odd man out, attempting to fit in a world that prefers to keep within its own borders (a form of security). • he experiences self-awareness and explodes in anger, grabbing a stone and throwing it at his enemies, re-establishing his boundaries. • Discriminations are sadly more prevalent than ever, not only in India but also everywhere around the world. People should not be prejudged or discriminated for their birth, heritage, ancestry, religion, looks etc... • Fandry is a great movie needed to be watched.
