Screening Religion: Mr. & Mrs. Iyer 10 September 2019 | 7 p.m.
Venue: Bibliotheca Albertina,
Vortragssaal (Beethovenstraße 6)
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer tells the story of a
young Hindu, who is accompanied by a young Muslim on her journey to her
parents-in-law through Northern India for security reasons. When they get into
bloody riots between Hindus and Muslims with their travel group, the
relationship turns and she protects him by pretending that he is her husband
and Hindu.
Arpana Sens love
story deals with the massive persecution of Indian Muslims by Hindu
nationalists as well as the mutual prejudices and tensions between religious
groups in India in general.
Shortly after
the end of filming in 2002, there were violent riots between Hindus and Muslims
in the Indian state of Gujarat, killing over 1000 people, most of them Muslims.
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