New Delhi, (Samajweekly) It was raining when the old woman’s son left for the US. She says the house wept too. She is sitting in the courtyard, alone. Maybe because the rooms are in mourning.
There is a certain rhythm to things in the way filmmaker Harjant Gill’s handles migration in his documentary film ‘Sent Away Boys’ that illuminates the experiences of those who are left behind, of course in addition to exploring the phenomenon of global migration through the framework of gender (specifically masculinity). Rather than following the journeys migrants undertake, he prefers to gaze at how families and communities are transformed by their absence, as well as the circumstances that motivated their decision to leave their home.
If you watch Gill’s three documentaries ‘Sent Away Boys’, ‘Mardistan’ and ‘Roots of Love’ back to back, what strikes most is not the lives of the subjects or the research. But the pregnant pauses. While ‘Mardistan’, a reflection on manhood, addresses the urgent and widespread issues of patriarchy, son<b>-b>preference, sexual violence, and homophobia in the Indian society, it also presents the responsibilities and challenges confronting Indian men today. A married gay man, who insists that cannot leave his wife for she is not at ‘fault’…
‘Roots of Love’ delicately talks about identity, the turban and hair being representative – a young Sikh man, who has cut his hair, listening, while the mother tells the camera her anguish�
Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Towson University , Gill, a 2020 Fulbright<b>-b>Nehru Research Fellow, who is at present developing a script which is a Punjabi adaptation of the great American novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ is also writing his book, ‘Coming of Age in Macholand’...
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