DVD, Digital Release: Mehsampur

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Laurence
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Digital, DVD Release Date: Oct. 29, 2019
Price: DVD $17.99
Studio: IndiePix

The trippy Indian mock documentary comedy Mehsampur —a film within a film that melds together fiction and documentary –comes from filmmaker Kabir Singh Chowdhry.

Cash-strapped, oddball filmmaker Devrath arrives in Punjab to make a film on the legendary husband and wife folk-singing duo Chamkila & Amarjot, whose bawdy songs about village life and Punjabi culture found both keen admirers and vicious detractors – and they were assassinated amidst cultural controversy in 1988. Panicked when he discovers that another film crew, with far greater resources, is also making a film on the folk-singers, Devrath quickly begins to interview Chamkila’s past associates — his former manager, a one-time singing partner, and fading percussionist, Lal Chand, a survivor of the yet-unsolved murders.

After rescuing an ambitious (and disturbed) young actress from lechers at his hotel, the pair begrudgingly agrees to accompany the filmmaker on a roadtrip to the location of the fateful event, in the not-too-far-away village of Mehsampur…

The 2018 film won the India Gold Grand Jury Prize at Mumbai Film Festival.

 

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.