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It has been two years back the Delhi assemblage rape, with its aboriginal account beam to the protests to apathetic animadversion that absolve animal violence. For New York-based filmmaker Ram Devineni, these triggered the conception of an alternating anecdotal which he brings to us through the adventure of a gang-rape victim to abode the issues of gender-based violence.
Set in a clear atypical format, evocative of Amar Chitra Katha, Devineni co-scripted the adventure (with poet-playwright Vikas K Menon) about a advocate who, afterwards a assemblage abduction and consecutive amusing isolation, brings about a amusing change. Funded by Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund and accurate by the Ford Foundation, the clear novel, blue-blooded Priya’s Shakti, will be launched at the Mumbai Banana Con in December. It is a allotment of a beyond multi-media activity by the aforementioned name (www.priyashakti.com), which includes workshops, documentary films, artery art and Augmented Reality (AR) initiatives through apps.
["291"]“Priya (created by American banana book artisan Dan Goldman) was a aftereffect of analysis on Hindu belief and art,” says Devineni, 42. Her activity plays out in bike with that of goddess Parvati, who looks aloft her admirers from heaven, and streams herself as a spirit into Priya’s alertness afterwards the assemblage abduction to advice her accompany about amusing change and abolish Shiva’s anathema on all of mankind’s adeptness to procreate. “Looking at Hindu belief and stories, I noticed how goddesses brought about change. We capital to appearance a abduction survivor as a goddess. In fact, there is an angel of Priya sitting on a tiger in the comic; it’s a abolishment of the angel of Durga on a tiger,” says Devineni.
Devineni and his aggregation from New York interviewed abduction and assemblage abduction survivors beyond India to actualize a atypical narrative. “We will use these as activated documentaries, with their identities concealed, as allotment of the AR banana book,” says Devineni. AR can be acclimated with the chargeless blippar.com app, which allows users to get added advice already the angel is scanned on a smartphone. “The app will accommodate abbreviate documentaries on how the women challenged and confronted the police, association and their peers” says Devineni.
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Apart from the banana book app, the activity alcove out to bodies through workshops. The aboriginal was in Mumbai from September 10-13 with teenagers from Dharavi actuality arrive to accomplish their own comics, helmed by artisan Chaitanya Modak. These will be apparent at the Mumbai Banana Con, the Dharavi Biennale in February 2015 and City Lore’s Gallery, New York, abutting year. In addition, adept Bollywood cine affiche painters will actualize AR panels on the walls of Dharavi, bounded artists will acrylic murals in Mumbai and Delhi amid added cities, and the Blippar belvedere will pop out added action and films on these sites.
“We appetite bodies to be adequate in putting abduction survivors in the centre of their lives,” says Devineni, “Our capital admirers is teenagers and the banana and the app is chargeless in India.” With this, Priya’s adventure has aloof begun. “Let’s see how acknowledged this one is, because Priya has a lot of problems to tackle,” he says.
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