yuddho ( or juddho ) ( english : war ) is a bengali language action drama film released in 2005 and dubbed in odia .

directed by rabi kinagi , the movie featured mithun chakraborty , jeet , koyel mullick and debashree roy .

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@ jeet30 watching # yuddho . . akhane tomar total 3te song ache . . r 3tei sonur gaowa r amr fvrt sonu ' s voice with your killing expression ! !
ajj fully koel day enjoy korlam : * 1st # herogiri 2nd # paglu2 3rd # rangbaaz 4th # ghatak 5th # premerkahini 6th # yuddho @ yourkoel thanx di . .
song name : swapno jeno pelo vasha from # saat _ paake _ bandha , but tunes played se chilo boroi anmona from # bandhan nd tumi amar prothom prem i love u from # yuddho .
4 ti movie te . . 1 . # yuddho 2 . # shatru 3 . # power 4 . # inspector notty k ( upcoming ) # bidhater _ lekha little police roll , # bkpk ( not a real police but some scenes playing police roll ) # inspectornottyk .
ghosts and goons to puppy love and mature relationships & apos ; a host of bengali films promise to pull in the crowds this season . metro lists what to expect .
storyline : working mother locket buys her seven - year - old son a talking doll . once the doll is brought home , strange things start happening including the gruesome murder of locket & apos ; s colleague . with sleuth sabyasachi on the case and a tantrik baying for blood , the plot hurtles towards a ghostly chase .
watch out for : shot in sync - sound with a handheld camera , the bengali & apos ; remix & apos ; version of hollywood horror film child & apos ; s play , mantra also marks the directorial debut of editor maitra and the comeback vehicle for saregama films . & apos ; it & apos ; s spooky but highly entertaining and high on thrills . this is not a blood and gore film , & apos ; says maitra .
storyline : rituparna runs into her office colleague shilajeet five years after the death of her husband ( sabyasachi ) in a hill station . though she lives in the past most of the time , a new relationship blossoms with her old friend which draws her towards the future .
watch out for : some scenic beauty of kalimpong , and rituparna as the woman at the crossroads of life . & apos ; it & apos ; s a film about untold love and a strange relationship that has a universal appeal , & apos ; says director dasgupta about his debut . he has co - written the script with wife manjulika .
storyline : prosenjit is everybody & apos ; s favourite raju uncle at the orphanage he runs despite a cash crunch . he also saves damsel - in - distress sayantani from the clutches of some goons and gives her shelter . love blossoms amidst the twists and turns .
watch out for : the romantic chemistry between prosenjit and model - turned - actress sayantani . also look out for the toy train sequence shot in darjeeling , a la parineeta .
& apos ; it & apos ; s a film which children will find highly entertaining . we have built up the climax through a lot of suspense , & apos ; says producer pijush saha .
storyline : mithun is an honest cop who loves to mow down criminals . a chance meeting with jeet makes mithun want to bring the educated - youth - turned - rebel into the police fold . but by the time jeet returns home , the cop has turned fugitive for the alleged murder of his wife . then on , it & apos ; s all about mithun on a vendetta track with jeet hot on his trail .
watch out for : a & apos ; taut action thriller & apos ; starring mithun and jeet for the first time . while the two men battle for the leading man & apos ; s slot , the pretty ladies ( debasree and koel ) will be adding the glam quotient .
& apos ; i am working with mithun in a mainstream film after a long time . we had worked together in troyee , chaka , ferari fauj and nadir teere sagare , & apos ; said debasree .
footnote : also in the running is swapan saha & apos ; s rajmahal , starring prosenjit and rachana banerjee , with lots of spooky elements thrown in .
from the colour black to the darkness of nishijapon . the party people stripped off their veneer or an artist & apos ; s struggle to come to terms with his wife & apos ; s body . there & apos ; s no faulting bollywood or tollywood on the variety score this year . but what about the hits , the misses and the talking points to date & apos ; here & apos ; s a breeze through & apos ;
storyline : a fitting tribute to the spirit of hellen keller , the film revolves around the unique relationship between a blind - deaf - mute girl and her never - say - die teacher .
plus point : bachchan and rani act out a human drama with a difference . & apos ; black was quite an extraordinary experience . ( for sanjay ) to make black after the colourful and grand devdas is a great departure . that & apos ; s a sign of a genius , & apos ; says amitabh bachchan .
storyline : a peek into the high - flying party life of mumbai through the eyes of a journalist .
plus points : bhandarkar & apos ; s roving , and often intrusive , camera , a novel theme and effortless performances . & apos ; the honesty of the effort shines through in every frame , & apos ; says boman irani .
storyline : a broken marriage in the first few reels , an extra - marital relationship in the next few , and a gripping thriller from there on .
plus point : the bhatt formula of making small - budget ( rs 3 - 4 crore ) thrillers . & apos ; the director and producer used the sex thing to create hype around the film , to make the audiences come to the halls . they always knew , once the audiences came to the theatres , they would love the film , & apos ; says udita goswami .
storyline : a fairytale set in the pristine locations of russia , where a schoolgirl and an older man fall in love while on the run .
plus point : salman khan still rocks at the box - office , especially with ash ii for company . & apos ; lucky is a love story with a fable quality , & apos ; say rao and sapru .
storyline : a family drama where a super - rich dad suddenly realises that he has to make his son realise the importance of money before his time ( he has a fatal disease ) runs out .
plus point : families are booking tickets in bulk to laugh in the first half and cry in the second . & apos ; it is an honest film about emotions . we are real . the relationships are real & apos ; everybody who loves someone fears losing him or her , & apos ; says akshay kumar .
a throwback to the turbulent times of the sixties through three different mindscapes make sudhir mishra & apos ; s hazaaron khwaishein aisi one of the best films to come out from india in recent times , while the honesty of my brother & apos ; nikhil tosses up a fresh perspective to the persistent problem named aids .
the first four months have been a downer for tollywood . of the dozen releases , the mythical potboiler devi is reportedly doing brisk business in the suburbs . but tinsel town , as we know it , is still waiting for its first hit of the year . here & apos ; s focusing on the five most talked - about films that have sailed through this tepid season .
storyline : after love at first sight , artist koushik discovers on his wedding night that wife churni is flat - chested . as the marriage sours , tota steps in to win the woman & apos ; s heart and steal a march over his friend .
plus point : pre - release hype coupled with a controversial subject is pulling in the college crowds . & apos ; nandan is doing daily business of around rs 75 , 000 . on weekends , it is touching rs 85 , 000 . talks are on with mumbai - based shringar films for a nationwide release , & apos ; says kaushik ganguly .
storyline : a family of five and a guest are stranded in a desolate cottage in the hills when a landslide snaps all sources of water , food and electricity .
minus point : something & apos ; s missing , say some . the drama isn & apos ; t taut , say others . & apos ; not all films can be a bombaiyer bombete , & apos ; counters sandip ray . & apos ; it has been a dream production but i am not satisfied with the distribution . publicity has really been very low . & apos ;
plus point : much of the charm in probhat roy & apos ; s comeback film after three years comes from the rustic hero adapting to the ways of the world . plus , the proven screen chemistry of jeet and koel . & apos ; i have packed in everything a family would want to watch together & apos ; comedy , emotion and drama , & apos ; says roy .
storyline : fighting against a corrupt social set - up , prosenjit flits in and out of six different looks to beat the bad men .
run : a little more than two months in the city . still on in the suburbs
minus point : prosenjit & apos ; s role - swapping didn & apos ; t work with his fans , despite the smart editing and sleek frames .
plus point : lush south india locales , sharp camera work and bollywood beauty rambha & apos ; s oomph , not to forget the mithun - tlv prasad combo . & apos ; cheeta is the remake of a hit south indian film with a good budget , & apos ; says shyamal dutta of eimpa .
director : amol palekar cast : shah rukh khan and rani mukherjee . cameos by amitabh bachchan and juhi chawla why watch : palekar goes mainstream with this film based on a folk tale about a woman who falls in love with a ghost
mithun , koel and jeet celebrate the film & apos ; s success at a city hotel . picture by aranya sen
it takes two to tango in tollywood , in today & apos ; s times , at least . the box - office jinx kept tripping tinsel town for the past six months till two leading men teamed up to vault it on july 29 . now , with house - full shows and deafening catcalls , the film industry is finally breathing easy .
riding high on the combined box - office might of mithun chakraborty and jeet , action thriller juddha has grossed more than rs 2 . 5 crore .
directed by ravi kinnagi , with debasree roy and koel mullick also in the lead , the film recorded an unprecedented initial of rs 1 . 2 crore in the first week .
footfall at the theatres & apos ; juddha was released at mitra , bharati and prachi in the city & apos ; this august has come as a shot in the arm for an industry reeling under a spate of flops and average scorers from the start of 2005 .
in the first week , juddha ran to 90 per cent occupancy at mitra , while prachi and bharati recorded 100 per cent collections . such high initials have smashed all previous records in tollywood , claims shrikant mohta of shree venkatesh films , which has produced juddha with a budget of around rs 2 - crore ( including print and publicity ) . & apos ; all the theatres where the film is running have reported profits . we have had 95 per cent overall collections . we didn & apos ; t expect anything like this , as it & apos ; s an action film , & apos ; mohta says .
while a bengali film is normally released with a maximum of 30 prints , venkatesh released juddha with 41 prints across the state . the ticket rates had also been raised by more than 50 per cent , which added to the profits , explains mohta . the new rates at bharati , for instance , are rs 20 for rear and rs 25 for balcony stalls .
& apos ; juddha is a superhit . we have had house - full night shows over the weekends , which is rare these days , & apos ; confirms mitra owner dipen majumdar , adding that it could well turn out to be the top grosser of the past three - four years .
from the venkatesh stable , juddha is the second action film to have rolled out after pratibad , starring prosenjit and wife arpita , in 2001 . in between , there have been quite a few of this genre under other banners , with prosenjit or mithun at the helm .
but juddha is again one of those inexplicable instances of the box - office performance being just right though the plot is almost all wrong . supercop mithun rounds up para rowdy jeet but discovers the good soul hidden within . and just when friendship begins to bind the two men , a corrupt mla kills mihun & apos ; s wife debasree to settle a score . framed for the murder , mithun turns fugitive , while jeet slips into cop gear to stop his mentor . and then , the cat - and - mouse chase that bollywood has long slammed its brakes on .
so , what has juddha going for it & apos ; the mithun - jeet combo , a sizzling item number , a fast pace , a slick look & apos ; one leading man couldn & apos ; t agree more . & apos ; the most important factor i think is me and mithun da coming together for the first time . that apart , juddha is above the normal bengali film in terms of stylisation , pace , content , looks and promotion , & apos ; sums up jeet .
& apos ; with jeet and mithun carrying equal weight , this is the first of its kind multi - starrer in tollywood . and the audience wants to see who scores over whom , & apos ; stresses mohta .
the racy remix version of the popular folk song saadher lao , to which gladrags supermodel contestant konkona bakshi shakes her hips in a skimpy outfit , has also done its bit to boost footfall .
& apos ; we expect juddha to run till the pujas and we will leave a gap before releasing our next , shubha drishti , & apos ; adds mohta .
if juddha is aimed squarely at the masses , shubha drishti , a rajshri - venkatesh co - production , will spring a step forward to pull in those hooked to parallel films , when it releases in the kali puja week .
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the story revolves around police officer agnishwar ray ( mithun chakraborty ) , who keeps getting transferred due to his aggressive nature towards criminals . he ends up at uttarpara police station where young boy surja sinha ( jeet ) is the local strongman . ranjit saha ( bharat kaul ) , the younger brother of the local mla named joy chand saha ( rajatava dutta ) , abducts a girl when the girl was returning from a college function , and violently rapes her in his car , leaving her to die . agnishwar arrests ranjit . to take revenge , the mla gets agnishwar put in prison and his wife sandhya ( debashree roy ) murdered . there starts agnishwar ' s revenge where he slowly kills all the persons responsible for putting him behind bars and killing his wife , ending with the death of the mla and himself at the hands of surja , who has by now become a police officer .
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the story revolves around police officer agnishwar rai ( mithun chakraborty ) , who keeps getting transferred due to his aggressive nature towards criminals . he ends up at utarpara police station where young boy surja sinha ( jeet ) is the local strongman . ranjit saha ( bharat kaul ) , the younger brother of the local mla named joy chand saha ( rajatava dutta ) , abducts a girl when the girl was returning from a college function , and violently rapes her in his car , leaving her to die . agnishwar arrests ranjit . to take revenge , the mla gets agnishwar put in prison and his wife debashree roy murdered . there starts agnishwar ' s revenge where he slowly kills all the persons responsible for putting him behind bars and killing his wife , ending with the death of the mla and himself at the hands of surja , who has by now become a police officer .
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the story revolves around police officer agnishwar rai , who keeps getting transferred due to his aggressive nature . he ends up at utapra police where young boy sujo sinha is the local tough guy . a girl is raped by the younger brother of the local ml , mithun arrests him but the ml gets him put in prison and his wife murdered . there starts his revenge where he slowly kills all the persons responsible for putting him behind bars and killing his wife , ending with his death and that of the ml .
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jeet began his acting career with the lead role in saathi directed by haranathchakraborty 2002 . followed by films champion ( 2003 ) , naater guru ( 2003 ) , shongee ( 2003 ) , premi ( 2004 ) , bondhon ( 2004 ) , juddho ( 2005 ) , hero ( 2006 ) , neel akasherchadni , wanted ( 2010 ) , josh ( 2010 ) , dui prithibi ( 2010 ) , fighter ( 2011 ) , shotru ( 2011 ) , 100 % love ( 2012 ) , awara ( 2012 ) , deewana ( 2013 ) , boss ( 2013 ) , game ( 2014 ) , the royal bengal tiger ( 2014 ) , bachchan ( 2014 ) , besh korechipremkorechi ( 2015 ) , power ( 2016 ) , badshah ( 2016 ) , abhimaan ( 2016 ) .
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abhimaan is the story of a proud business tycoon ashok deb burman ( sabyasachi chakraborty ) and his estranged daughter madhuja ( anjana basu ) . madhuja harbours hate for her father — who disowned her because she married someone against his wishes . . twenty five years have now passed . mellowed with age , ashok now wants to mend his relationship with madhuja . for this , he seeks the help of his grandson , aditya deb burman ( jeet ( actor ) . the rest of the story follows aditya ' s entering the house posing as a driver and how he gets into many adventures and misadventures and finally succeeds in reconcilling his grandfather with his aunt .
a story of a boy who always wanted to be a don from childhood . he reaches to london , england , where he friends a girl named shreya and he fall in love with her .
the plot is simple - a man who was the look - alike of an honest police officer in his previous life , is eager to join the police . he gets the opportunity , and what follows next is a thrilling ride of comedy with kharaj , and action along with a flashback to his previous life , which was thought to be another person altogether .
aditya ( jeet ) is a smart young man , who has a solution for every problem . one fine day , he meets rai ( koel ) and falls in love with her ; later rai also falls for him . however , he soon realises that he has rubbed her elder brother on the wrong side ( ashis vidyarthi ) . aditya then with his plans brings his elder brother and rai to his own house as paying guest . then aditya slowly unites the brother with his another sister who he had thrown out of his house for loving a boy not of his brother ' s choice . all was going fine when on the marriage day of rai and baskar ( vivaan ghosh ) as planned by aditya , aditya reveals to dibakar ( ashis vidyarthi ) that he is actually the son of his rival raghab singh ( puneet ishar ) . finally after the climax fight aditya wins to get rai , his love of his life .
abir plays abhirup , a guy who is as ordinary as any other person can be and has no personality simply because he is one of the most timid people you can know . he has no say in anything and he refuses to speak up even when required . there are a number of occasions when people are out to destroy him - like his office colleague who tries to finish him , like his tenant who refuses to pay rent and humiliates him or like his colleague who gets molested in front of him . yet on each occasion , he remains a mute spectator . however suddenly one day everything changes when his childhood friend and saviour , anjan ( jeet ) , comes back in his life and awakens the tiger in him and he becomes the man possessed and he becomes the ‘trbt’
“game” is about abhimanyu ( jeet ) , an army man and a secret dia agent , who returns to kolkata on vacation . he has a loving family who wish to get him married to trisha ( subhashree ) a girl chosen by his parents . along with his romantic escapades , he also has a greater task at hand as he has to eradicate sleeper cells that are out to bomb and terrorize kolkata across 12 prominent localities . abhimanyu manages to successfully spoil the plan of a serial bomb blasts with the help of his 11 - army friends which alarms and shocks the kingpin . the remaining story revolves around how abhimanyu takes on this terror network and emerges out of it .
jeet ( bacchu ) plays a crazy fan of the big b and so he is called vijay bachchan because of his immense adulation for the superstar . he walks , talks , fights and tries to imitate big b in every which way he also gets to romance an armyman’s daughter by posing as a doctor and fighting the goons at the same time . it was a puja release and have done quite well at box office . the movie featured 3 heroines , aindrita ray from kannada film industry , payelsarkar , and subhoshree for an item dance , choreographed by ganesh acharya .
the movie of jeet & koel ; is the sweetest love story that deals with commitment despite familial attachments . in the film koel plays the role of a girl who is torn between love for her soul - mate and commitment towards her family . not really a teenage romance and most crucially it is an emotionally charged love story where dedication to all matters concerning the heart is everything .
abhi ( jeet ) is a funloving and extremely popular boy from phoolbari , a small township in north bengal . his father indranath ( biswajit chakraborty ) is a highly respected man in phoolbari . agnidev roy ( bharat kaul ) , a dreaded mafia from kolkata , sends his daughter shruti ( srabanti ) to phoolbari on a vacation . binay ( supriyo dutta ) an old aide of agnidev requests abhi to receive shruti at the railway station . abhi takes an instant liking for shruti the moment he sets his eyes on her at the railway station . gradually , shruti starts to enjoy the company of abhi and his friends and the fondness between abhi and shruti grows . one day , abhi finds out that shruti is suffering from ' post traumatic event disorder ' , since the time she met with a car accident recently . she has no memory of the last three years . when abhi takes her to a doctor at phoolbari , the doctor states that shruti can be cured , but she might not remember anything of her visit to phoolbari , her friends or even abhi .
megh sees mita one day and falls in love at first sight . he follows her to her house and discovers that she is expecting a ' man servant ' from orrisa . he decides to pose as the man servant ' priyo ' . this game continues for quite some time . meg also comes to know that mita is actually his employee . mita also discovers his real identity one day . she is furious and does not accept him . megh hatches a plot with his grandmother where there is a false marriage taking place . mita arrives at his marriage after getting his invitation and discovers that everything had been planned in that manner so that he could win her over .
based in hridaypur , police officer dibakar singha lives a wealthy lifestyle with his parents , grandmother , and a sister . he is very well respected in the community , and everyone rises up to support him when a gangster , arjun sarkar , brings an army of goons to intimidate him . the latter is humbled and humiliated and returns home to howrah where he uses his influence with politicians and senior police officers to transfer dibakar . once there , the latter finds out about arjun ' s criminal activities but is prevented from taking any action by his supervisors . frustrated , he and his friends , including his sweetheart , pooja , must endure more humiliation at the hands of a ruthless arjun - who plans on carrying with his agenda of terrorizing and humiliating dibakar with impunity .
the film starts with a flashback . acp bose ( ferdous ) is a sincere police officer happily married and lives with his parents and younger brother surya ( jeet ) . surjo is a college student and he falls in love with his classmate indu ( srabanti ) . enter section shankar , bharat kaul , the villain who is notorious for settlements and land deals . indu comes across acp bose when she is on a field trip from her college with her friends . she gets friendly with his daughter pinky who tells her that she would get her introduced to her uncle surya and they would make a good pair . it turns out that surya studies in indu ' s college and soon after they accidentally even come to know each other and get close .
acp bose investigates the case of a dreaded criminal section shankar whom no one has been able to touch . he is even involved with a land deal involving crores of money which is completely illegal and others including the d . i . g is involved . when the chairman of the bank who has lent money for the deal demand the money back as the deal hasn’t worked , but section shankar eliminates him . the people who are customers of the bank take to the streets and try to damage the bank . acp bose arrives there , arrests the manager and takes him away . somehow section shankar comes to know where the manager has been taken . he arrives there with his men and the d . i . g and nearly kill acp bose . section shankar asks his men to dump the body . on the way , somehow surya gets involved and ultimately rescues his brother from a burning bus and the elder brother dies in the younger brother ' s arms . the entire media and the people think that acp bose has swindled off all the money as they have been made to believe that by the d . i . g . surya decides to take revenge on the people who killed his brother . firstly he kills nikhil ( his friend and section shankar ' s friend ) . then he kills the d . i . g ( he had been taken to jail and he had escaped ) . nikhil had also kidnapped indu as he wants her at any cost , but surya rescues her . section shankar also kidnaps the entire family of surya . surya goes to section shankar house ' s where he kills shankar and rescues his family under the supervision of the new d . i . g who supports him wholeheartedly .
rahul roy , ( jeet ) as called by his friends and family , is the son of a multi - millionaire called arup roy ( b . d . mukherjee ) . he is born and brought up in comfort and luxury and for him life is just a game and he is accustomed to lavish lifestyle . he is portrayed to be a happy go lucky character and quite popular with the female kind . he comes across nandini ( koel mallick ) , a young & charming doctor . rahul challenges his friends that he would make her fall in love within few days . rahul invites nandini for coffee after a dance programme and proposes to her .
nandini , being an orphan , is very kind towards the poor people and is a good samaritan . she mingles with poor people and provides succor to them . but , being a rich boy , rahul hates those people . however , nandini ' s free - spirited nature takes him very near to her and he develops an intimate friendship . at the same time , nandini keeps maintaining some distance and does not express her love . though she likes him , she can ' t love him for he ' s not sensitive to the people and things around him . a privileged upbringing makes him myopic to the hard realities of life . by the time , she wants to express her love , she learns that rahul has challenged his friends about his love and decides to keep herself off .
while dropping her at her hostel on his car after a party , rahul tries to convince her that he is really in love with her but she does not listen to him . in the process , rahul has an accident , where a woman dies and her son is orphaned . nandini survives the accident , while rahul wakes up from injuries in hospital . after gaining consciousness , rahul cannot find nandini and he decides to go in search of her on his bike .
in the process , he happens to meet a motorbike thief called shibu , brilliantly played by dev . though shibu is a vehicle thief , he is good at heart . the journey rahul takes changes his life drastically : as he is exposed to the hard realities of rural life and yet its simple joys . the landscapes and the people he meets takes him through an emotional journey that alters his perceptions forever . be it a teacher ( manoj mitra ) who supports orphan kids , a disillusioned ex - militant ( debranjan nag ) , a prostitute who craves for love ( barkha ) , or his own companion shibu , they all aid in his journey to self - discovery .
indra ( jeet ) and rajib ( anshuman ) are the thickest of friends studying in the same college . when indra comes to the city to visit rajib , indra notices rajib ' s sister , anu ( srabanti chatterjee ) , and is attracted to her instantly . when rajib visits his home village , indra visits along with him . anu , who returns from singapore , is impressed by indra , who continually impresses her , based on her tastes . he gets along well with rajib ' s and anu ' s family , in the meanwhile convinces them that he would make a prospective groom for anu .
anu ' s family , mainly her brother and cousin , are involved in regional gangs in their village . when anu takes out indra to the temple for a visit , without the knowledge of their brother ( tapas paul ) , anu is then attacked by rudra ' s brother nikhil ( bharat kaul ) gets hold of anu and threatens to kill anu . in a swift action of bravery and skill , indra knocks down rudra ' s brother .
after this incident , anu ' s brother , gives indra a talk about why things are so violent in the village . he explains how he is a masters degree holder from a prestigious university ( pune ) and how his wife is also a masters degree holder in integrated mathematics . unfortunately , due the nature of the villages , the rivalry is deadly and fatal . he ultimately says , even though the villages are violent , he will remain a noble person , with high ideals .
after a few days though , in the most ungrateful manner and a show cowardice , the rival gang fights with fierce brutality , and the rival gang leader rudra ( puneet issar ) murders rajib ' s entire family , except anu . indra makes the promise to anu ' s brother that he will take up the responsibility of anu and that he will eventually marry her . in the process , he also becomes a rival of rudra as he kills his younger brother nikhil to protect anu .
after the tragedy , indra and anu head back to kolkata city to attend indra ' s sister ' s marriage . the movie shows the jovial aspects of the marriage ceremonies . at the end of the marriage , an uncle of indra insults anu and tells her to leave him and bribes her money to leave . indra turns furious to his uncle and promised that he will marry anu , whatever may come . just as anu and indra go out to eat , the original rival gang of rudra returns and indra , in a fit of deep rage and anger , beats all the rival gang members , chases them down a few miles . realizing he left anu behind , he goes back to find she is gone and then instantly becomes deeply dejected and despondent . this is when his father asks him to tell him what happened . the story he tells his father is the story that is written above . the rest of the film deals with how indra saves anu and takes revenge from the goons .
a party leader , amarnath ganguly wants someone to attempt an assassination on him so that he can get more sympathy votes in the upcoming election . amarnath ganguly ' s colleague shubhankar banerjee ( biplab chatterjee ) hooks him up with raja for a deal . however , before raja can shoot amarnath ganguly , someone else fatally shoots him . within minutes , police surround the building . just before the exit of the building , a big car accident occurs on the street with raja ' s car . raja assumes that joy got trapped and died in the accident . so raja goes to the top of the skyscraper . with the police behind him and in front of him , he is helpless . suddenly a train comes and raja uses a rope to jump from the skyscraper to the train .
on the train , raja meets shibu ( atanu mukherjee ) . shibu reveals that he ran away from his village , ganganagar , when he was young , he explains that he is finally returning to his village . later that same evening , while aiming for raja , the police accidentally shoot shibu . raja escapes and decided to go to ganganagar . thinking that raja is shibhu , his family accepts raja into their family .
meanwhile , a cbi officer , salim ali khan ( sharad kapoor ) , investigating the murder of amarnath ganguly comes across raja alias shibu . he suspects raja of amarnath ganguly ' s murder . he tries taking raja ' s fingerprints unconventionally but raja outsmarts him . soon clues lead to joy but he is dead .
chandni ( koel mallick ) is the daughter of ( ranjit mallick ) , a renowned proponent of indian classical music .
into this carefree life enters akash ( jeet ) , a boy of parentage who wants to grasp the intricates of indian classical music under the guidance of pandit darbar . neel stays with the darbar family , and chandni is asked to vacate her room to give the guest the nicest room in the mansion . chandni takes a dislike to akash , and the two keep playing pranks on each other , but soon realise they are in love . their love blossoms in the darbar household around weddings , festivals and family get - togethers .
one day the pair are caught rehearsing their wedding vows and dreaming of their future together by pandit darbar , who becomes furious with them as he has already planned chandni ' s wedding with neel ( jisshu sengupta ) . akash is banished from the household as darbar has quit singing because of chandni being impure . as contribution to a teacher , akash is asked never to meet chandni again . akash does not leave india immediately . he stays in town and writes letters to chandni asking her to join him , but his letters do not reach her in time . chandni reluctantly goes through the marriage with neel , who had fallen in love with chandni during her cousin ' s wedding .
on the wedding night , neel realises that chandni is not behaving sane and tries to ask her why she is not responding to his love . he asks her for the truth , promising he will help her no matter what . chandni doesn ' t reply to him which angers him .
neel soon catches her reading love letters by akash . neel is rudely shattered and drags her back home . at first he is extremely furious because chandni hasn ' t said the truth . since his wife is in love with another man , he shows ultimate love and wisdom by taking chandni to italy , in search of akash , to the initial dislike , but eventual approval of his own parents .
chandni and neel arrive in italy , but always come up against dead ends , searching for akash . during their search , they face many problems and dilemmas and slowly chandni gets to see what neel really is like . she sees neel selflessly devoting himself to caring for her during her stay in hospital after a gunshot . eventually they get news about akash through his mother , and neel dutifully arranges for their encounter on the night of akash ' s debut concert . his job done , neel bids goodbye to chandni and walks away , a heartbroken man .
rahul ( jeet ) , the son of a wealthy but traditional industrialist , returned home to his father after completing his academic career in foreign lands . when the father tries to persuade him in his marriage he puts up a fantastic condition - that he will marry the girl of his father’s choice and will live as married couple for one year only , after which , if either of the two seems to feel distant from the other , the marriage will be called off . surprisingly , the traditional father agrees and chooses pallavi ( koel mallick ) , his pa as the most appropriate bride .
now pallavi’s family consisted of her widowed mother , an elder sister deprived of her husband , a younger brother not at all competent for any job , and the youngest sister getting pregnant with the boyfriend trying to avoid responsibilities . so pallavi , just to save her family , accepted the contract much against her wishes and thus began a curious way of life with both of the wedlocked couple leading an unreal lifestyle .
though both shared the same bed , but rahul seemed to be oddly insensitive to pallavi’s emotions . thus it was not strange that he never cared to celebrate pallavi’s birthday and his scathing remarks while appreciating pallavi’s cooking hurt her feelings and duty seemed the only virtue that kept rahul any closer to his wife . but the artificiality of the story is vividly brought to fore when rahul , after quickly recovering from a comatose condition , chiefly due to pallavi’s sincerest nursing , doesn’t hesitate to declare that the next day is the end of their contract term when he will be willingly divorcing pallavi . well at this point if the audience thought that the story is nearing a tragic completion , it is only the intermission that is declared .
in the second half we see that the table turns as rahul suddenly feels sympathetic to pallavi and all his passions overwhelms him so much that he rushes to his in - laws’ house and requests pallavi’s return . but no says the director , and the story goes on with pallavi now rejecting all the ardent proposals of rahul , be it him buying all the shares of pallavi’s new struggling organization just to secure for himself the position of pallavi’s boss . surprises seem to be on store for the audience with pallavi conceiving a child ( just imagine that rahul was in comatose for a pretty long time and the day he recovered , the couple separated ) and now rahul , in sympathy arranges for an ac bus for her and shifts her office to the ground floor . now the only thing that remains is revelation and pallavi invites and insults rahul in one of the most improbable of settings with rahul sophisticatedly defending his views .
finally after all these , the two again reunites in hospital bed after the severely injured rahul takes pallavi to the maternity ward ( it is clearly indicated in the picture that pallavi was less than seven months pregnant though she suffers serious labour pains and again when the baby was delivered no sign of immaturity is ever observed ) and they celebrate the simultaneous delivery of the child and rahul’s recovery from his critical condition . thus family ties are again restored and the happy ending is guaranteed .
the film covers a span of a few days — beginning before independence day and reaching its climax on d - day itself . anikit ( jeet ) , a talented singer and a simpleton , lands himself in trouble when a stranger takes shelter in his house along with her child . what follows , is a series of lies by anikit and room - mate kobi ( biswanath ) , only to cover up the incident . the actors , who stand out are biswanath , who tries to do an ustad zakir hussain act , in search of his muse , papiya adhikari as the neighbourhood boudi , biswajit chakraborty as mama sen and mimi dutta as hiya ' s ( varsha ) intelligent sister .


tillie olsen : a heart in action is a 2007 documentary film directed and produced by ann hershey on the life and literary influence of tillie olsen , the u.s. writer best known for the books tell me a riddle ( 1961 ) and yonnondio : from the thirties ( 1974 ) .

the film includes extensive interviews with olsen and with prominent fans of her work , including writers alice walker and florence howe and feminist political leader gloria steinem .

tillie olsen : a heart in action

tillie olsen : a heart in action is included in the following special collections .
tillie olsen : a heart in action ( dvd video , 2008 ) [ worldcat . org ]
the tillie olsen film project . tillie olsen - a heart in action . a film by ann hershey . ( link )
tillie olsen in 2001 . the writer and activist , who died last year , is the subject of a new documentary ,
tillie olsen : a heart in action .
photo by christopher felver
hearing that line , filmmaker ann hershey , who was with olsen at the time , knew she ' d found the title and opening sequence for her new documentary ,
tillie olsen : a heart in action .
tillie olsen : a heart in action / ann hershey ; tillie olsen ; frances reid ; irving saraf ; mary watkins ; persimmon tree films . ; women make movies ( firm ) ; ; new york , ny : women make movies , 2007 .
i thought you might be interested in this item at urltoken title : tillie olsen : a heart in action author : ann hershey ; tillie olsen ; frances reid ; irving saraf ; mary watkins ; persimmon tree films ; women make movies ( firm ) publisher : new york , ny : women make movies , 2007 . oclc : 232665483
summary a portrait of tillie olsen . includes interviews with alice walker , gloria steinem and tillie olsen ' s daughters .
“a heart in action is , without a doubt , a gift to educators who are invested in trying to train students to develop a historical and political imagination . it restores olsen to the thirties milieu that formed her political sensibilities while simultaneously insisting upon her currency for ongoing projects of cultural studies and feminist activism within the present . educators interested in using hershey’s film might place it in conversation with works of feminist theory and cultural studies . . ”
tillie olsen : a heart in action : screens 7 p . m . monday . grand lake theater , 3200 grand lake ave . , oakland . tickets : $ 10 . show includes a sing - along to labor and folk songs featuring ronnie gilbert . for information , call persimmon tree films at ( 510 ) 222 - 6931 or go to urltoken .
tillie olsen was 91 when she collapsed in omaha , neb . , where the venerable writer and activist had grown up in a working - class , russian - jewish socialist family , and where she ' d returned in 2003 to receive an award from the high school she ' d quit to take a factory job . in the hospital , she gazed in wonder at the ekg of her pulsing heart .
what better way to open the film ?
says hershey , who specializes in documentaries about creative older women and made a prize - winning 1976 film about bay area photographer imogen cunningham .
it was perfect for tillie . her heart was in action all the time , whether it was for civil rights and justice or getting people writing and telling their stories .
tillie lerner worked all kinds of jobs - waitress , laundress , pork trimmer in a packinghouse . she moved to san francisco in 1934 , and plunged into the local labor struggle , which she wrote about for the new republic and partisan review . a member of the young communist league for a period , she fell in love with and eventually married jack olsen , a fellow communist who was a warehouseman and union official ( he later taught the first labor studies class at city college of san francisco ) . he and tillie , who had a daughter from a previous relationship , had three more daughters , all of whom became involved in social action .
born in omaha , nebraska in 1912 , olsen died in 2007 at the age of 94 . a depression - era high school dropout , olsen made public libraries her college . she worked as a waitress and secretary for 20 years while raising four daughters .
i certainly didn ' t want it to go on strike for better working conditions ,
joked olsen , who ' d been arrested during the historic 1934 san francisco waterfront strike and over the ensuing decades and until her death at 94 on new year ' s day 2007 , was deeply engaged in the labor , anti - war and feminist movements .
it was a real thrill to see my own heart in action .
seven years in the making ,
tillie olsen : a heart in action ,
will premiere locally at oakland ' s grand lake theater at 7 p . m . on monday , olsen ' s birthday . before the screening , folksinger ronnie gilbert , an old friend and comrade of olsen ' s , and members of olsen ' s family will lead a sing - along of labor and folk songs like
i dreamed i saw joe hill last night
and
which side are you on ?
gilbert will sing
beloved comrade ,
as she does in the film when olsen kisses her parents ' gravestones . the lyrics will be projected on the screen for those in the crowd who don ' t know them .
oakland , ca - january 25 , 2008 . a new documentary on tillie olsen , feminist and award winning author ,
tillie olsen : a heart in action ,
will be shown on wednesday , february 6 at 6 : 30 pm in lucie stern 100 at mills college , 5000 macarthur blvd . , oakland , ca . admission is free and open to the public . seating is limited . previous screenings of the film at the grand lake theater in oakland have sold out . the 66 - minute film , directed by filmmaker ann hershey , follows the life of an activist who fought against the silencing of women , and for the rights of american workers .
martin , abigail : tillie olsen ( digital collections , albertsons library ) . ( link )
a loving portrait of the san francisco writer best known for
tell me a riddle
- the poetic and wrenching 1961 novella about an old married couple facing the end of their hard lives - the film begins with the sound and image of olsen ' s beating heart .
frye , joanna s . 1995 . tillie olsen : a study of the short fiction . new york : twayne publishers , 1995 .
cusac , anne - marie : tillie olsen interview . the progressive , november 1999 . ( link )
hershey will answer questions following the screening . she will be introduced by mills alumna ( class of ' 94 ) rebekah edwards , the granddaughter of tillie olsen and a lecturer in the mills english department .
coiner , constance ( 1995 ) : tillie olsen ' s life . from : better red – the writing and resistance of tillie olsen and meridel le sueur . new york : oxford up , 1995 . ( link )
tillie olsen ' s impassioned voice against the oppression of women inspired the voices of a new generation . for olsen , art and humanity were one ; her life was her work of art
olsen , tillie . 1974 . yonnondio : from the thirties . new york . delacorte press / seymour lawrence .
tillie olsen ' s impassioned voice against the oppression of women inspired the voices of a new generation . for olsen , art and humanity were one ; her life was her work of art ,
said mills president janet l . holmgren . olsen received an honorary doctor of letters degree from mills college in 1995 .
pearlman , mickey , and abby h . p . werlock . 1991 . tillie olsen . boston : twayne publishers .
during the dark days of the mccarthy era in the 1950s , jack olsen was continually fired for his political past and often out of work . tillie , who was president of the pta , was accused of being a stalinist agent trying to infiltrate the schools ; neighbors told their kids to shun the olsen girls . their mother worked as a secretary and at other jobs . she had little time for writing , a subject she explored in essays about impediments to writing that were published in her 1978 book ,
silences .
during this respite she was able to write , and began work on a novel about the holbrooks , a poor family struggling to eke out a living in the 20’s and early 30’s , first in a coal - mining town in wyoming , then on a tenant farm in south dakota , finally in a meat - packing center modelled on omaha . the novel remained unfinished but was eventually published in 1972 as yonnondio : from the thirties . it captures the pain and futility of the american midwestern rural and urban poor in vivid , psychologically wrenching scenes that show the crushing effects of poverty on father , mother and children . although the narrative perspective shifts repeatedly and includes poetic , stream - of - consciousness passages , the experiences of mother anna and daughter mazie receive the most development and offer the few momentary examples of hope for a better life .
olsen , tillie . 1961 . tell me a riddle : a collection . reprints of “i stand here ironing , ” “hey sailor , what ship , ” “0 yes , ” and “tell me a riddle . ” philadelphia and new york . j . b . lippincott , 1961 .
in the film , olsen says she started writing about the lives of the working people she grew up with because
it was nearly impossible to find them in any of the books i read .
while still in her teens , she began writing the novel
yonnondio ,
which she took up again and published in the early ' 70s . in this depression - era tale of a family struggling to survive , the mother , anna , dies of a botched abortion she performs on herself .
reid , panthea . 2010 . tillie olsen : one woman , many riddles . new brunswick , nj and london . rutgers .
many women were forced to terminate their own pregnancies at the time ,
and tillie wanted to write about that . she was a woman writing about her life and her neighbors and her community ,
hershey says . like many women , the filmmaker discovered olsen during what she calls
the resurgence of the feminist movement
in the ' 70s , when olsen became a feminist heroine , a role she took to .
olsen , now established as a prize - winning author and feminist icon , was showered with grants and visiting professorships , including neh and guggenheim grants , fellowships at the macdowell writers’ colony in new hampshire , visiting positions at mit , university of massachusetts boston , amherst college , ucla , university of minnesota and kenyon college . she was awarded at least six honorary degrees and was celebrated in 1981 when then mayor diane feinstein proclaimed may 18 “tillie olsen day” in san francisco . she maintained a hectic pace , appearing on podiums around the country ( and abroad , as norway’s international visiting scholar in 1980 ) ; as in earlier years , olsen’s extraordinary public engagement both energized and exhausted her and again impeded actual writing .
tillie loved the grand lake , so when they said it was available on her birthday , i grabbed it ,
says hershey , sitting in her small sixth - floor office at the saul zaentz film center in berkeley .
nelson , kay hoyle , and nancy huse . 1994 . the critical response to tillie olsen . westport , conn . greenwood press .
in 1955 , on the basis of the short story
i stand here ironing ,
about a single mother ' s pained relationship with her daughter , she scored a creative writing fellowship at stanford . a ford foundation grant a few years later gave her time to write
tell me riddle ,
which won the o . henry award for best short story in 1961 .
ann hershey’s film about the life of author and activist tillie olsen serves as a great introduction and overview of both olsen’s life and her published works from which they were drawn . overarching themes include the labor movement , family life , feminism , social justice and political movements specific to california’s bay area . these have been lived and written about by olsen and are present in the film both in the first person and as recollections by olsen’s daughters , her colleagues and scholars who have studied her life and writings .
“tillie olsen helps those of us condemned to silence—the poor , the racial minorities , the women—find our voices . ” ( maxine hong kingston )
bosman , julie : tillie olsen , feminist writer , dies at 94 . new york times , january 3 , 2007 . ( link )
a biography of
tillie lerner olsen : a renegade , revolutionary , distinguished fiction and non - fiction writer , feminist , humanist , labor organizer and social activist . politically active , class conscious , deeply joined to the world , tillie countered the very core of american writing by immortalizing the lives of working class women and single mothers . . . extended interviews with olsen during the last years of her
“offers an invigorating biographical profile set against periods of dramatic social upheaval . a wonderful vehicle for encouraging a new generation to seek out olsen’s writing , this is highly recommended . ”
the biography is thorough and linear , beginning with olsen’s reminiscences of her childhood and family life in nebraska through to footage of her taken in 2006 shortly before her death on january 1 , 2007 . there is a wonderful amount of footage of tillie herself discussing her work , her choices , her motivation and circumstances as well as competing versions offered by her daughters .
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she also neglected her daughter , pawning her off on relatives and allowing her to become ill and emaciated when under her charge . by 1936 she had broken up with abe goldfarb and begun a relationship with jack olsen , a party comrade and labor organizer . both had participated in the 1934 west coast waterfront strike and been jailed for their activities . tillie later tried to erase all mention of goldfarb in her biography ; his mysterious death in a suspicious auto accident ( 1937 ) appears to have left her with long - lasting guilt feeings ( reid 130 ) . she and jack olsen would eventually marry and have three daughters .
rosenfelt , deborah silverton , hg . 1995 . “tell me a riddle” by tillie olsen ( women writers , texts and contexts series ) . new brunswick , n . j . rutgers university press , 1995 .
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olsen10 _ 010 _ lh . jpg director ann hershey spent seven years making a documentary about tillie olsen , the famed bay area writer and activist who died a year ago . liz hafalia / the chronicle / san francisco / 1 / 8 / 08 . . . more
coiner , constance . 1995 . better red : the writing and resistance of tillie olsen and meridel le sueur . new york : oxford university press .
tillie lerner’s adult life was no less full of both exuberance and despair , commitment and distraction . charismatic and beautiful , she joined the young communist league ( ycl ) in 1930 , to the disapproval of her socialist parents , and met and secretly married abraham jevons goldfarb , a leftist writer and activist 17 years her senior . under the directives of the ycl she wrote , organized , participated in strikes , worked in a tie factory and at other jobs . when she became very ill , she was given a reprieve by the ycl and allowed to recover in faribault , minnesota at the home of her husband’s relatives .
after the reading ,
she ' d stay , and a long line of people - of all ages , all ethnicities - would come up to her with old books in their hands , a torn copy of ' tell me a riddle , '
recalls hershey , who made this low - budget film with grants and hundreds of donations . she mixed interviews with olsen , her family and writers with photographs and footage portraying the tumultuous times olsen lived through : czarist cossacks , lynched men - olsen tears up in the film as she recalls the sight and smell of a young african american she saw lynched and burned in omaha - picketing longshoremen , marching nazis , ravaged hiroshima .
olsen , tillie . 1978 . silences . new york . delacorte press / seymour lawrence . ( rpt 2003 . new york . the feminist press . )
olsen herself advocated effectively on behalf of such “lost” writers as rebecca harding davis and agnes smedley , whose work she persuaded florence howe to republish as the first two recovered texts of her new feminist press . davis’ 1861 story “life in the iron mills” appeared in 1972 with a long biographical introduction by olsen , and smedley’s autobiographical novel daughter of earth , first published in 1929 , came out the following year . in addition to her essays and talks , olsen developed reading lists of works by women writers which were eagerly adopted by feminist teachers of literature and the emerging field of women’s studies .
in the late 30’s and 1940’s tillie olsen was kept from writing by the burdens of raising a family and earning a living ; she also became actively involved on behalf of women and children , for example as president of her pta chapter and of the california cio ladies’ auxiliary ( reid 146 ) . despite having served on government boards to assist with wartime social and economic issues , tillie was , along with jack , targeted by the fbi during the “red scare” witch hunts of the early 1950’s ; both lost their jobs and lived in fear of being arrested .
olsen now began to craft stories based on her daily observations , encouraged by creative writing classes at san francisco state college and a prestigious stegner fellowship at stanford university ( 1955 - 56 ) . she wrote her best known stories during this time , including “i stand here ironing , ” a mother’s anguished reflections about her troubled daughter’s childhood and her own maternal inadequacies . in 1960 olsen published “tell me a riddle , ” a novella based on her russian immigrant mother’s last illness and death . it received the o’henry prize for best american short story the following year and in 1980 was made into a film with melvin douglas and lila kedrova and directed by lee grant .
one wall of the office is covered with pictures of frida kahlo , walt whitman , the dalai lama , and olsen with novelist alice walker . in the film , walker credits olsen with
changing the landscape of feminist writing and reading ,
alluding to olsen ' s role in getting the feminist press to republish forgotten works by women , among them rebecca harding davis ' 1861
life in the iron mills
and agnes smedley ' s 1929
daughter of earth .
olsen was nearly 50 years old when her first book , tell me a riddle , a collection of short stories , was published . its title story won the coveted o . henry prize . silences , her groundbreaking book of essays , was dedicated to historically silenced people - women , persons of color , and the working class - whose potential as writers was consumed in the hard , everyday work of maintaining human life . olsen ' s work has been published in 13 languages .
hershey became close with olsen and her family in the early ' 70s after being introduced to her by the filmmaker ' s former partner , writer sandy boucher . they helped care for olsen as she became more infirm , and developed alzheimer ' s . in the film , gloria steinem comes to visit olsen , who no longer recognizes her . steinem takes a necklace from her neck and puts it around olsen ' s .
i ' m going to try and make some trouble today and do the work that you inspired us to do .
she caught the narrative flow right away and carried it off to a powerful , weeping ending ,
says leo litwak , the short - story writer and retired san francisco state university professor . he didn ' t know olsen but admires
tell me a riddle
and
i stand here ironing ,
the best - known pieces in olsen ' s small body of work .
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“ silences will , like a room of one ' s own , be quoted where there is talk of the circumstances in which literature is possible . ” ( adrienne rich )
this revelatory documentary is an inspiring homage to tillie lerner olsen – a renegade , revolutionary , distinguished fiction and non - fiction writer , feminist , humanist , labor organizer and social activist . politically active , class conscious , deeply joined to the world , tillie countered the very core of american writing by immortalizing the lives of working class women and single mothers . her short stories “tell me a riddle , ” and “i stand here ironing , ” galvanized the literary world and set in motion an essential new perspective on the lives of ordinary women .
“welcome viewing for those interested in creative writing , social history , or women ' s studies . ”
tillie and abe’s daughter karla was born in december , 1932 . the family soon moved to california to work for the communist party . during this period tillie was torn between her writing and political activism , with her dedication to the goals of the party usually winning out . “‘when it comes to painting slogans or plastering up stickers a madness overcomes me . ’” ( reid 97 ) despite the fact that she was courted by leftist editors who saw in her the promise of a new proletarian literature – philip rahv printed the first section of her novel ( as “the iron throat” ) in his partisan review – and publishers such as bennett cerf of random house , tillie did not produce more of the promised book . she stalled publishers for years , taking their advance payments and telling them she was making progress , while instead she took part in strike actions , got arrested and jailed , and wrote political brochures .
. scholars interviewed for the film claim , variously , that “tillie is credited with changing the landscape of feminist writing… writing about women’s lives , working people” and stating boldly that olsen , “recreated the american short story . ” the range and caliber of feminists who appear in the film and discuss olsen’s contribution to literature include alice walker , gloria steinem and florence howe .
though her literary output was limited in quantity , the short stories and unfinished novel of tillie olsen are considered by many to be literary masterpieces . in her fiction , essays and charismatic talks , moreover , olsen introduced themes that would become central to a generation of women readers and writers : she brought the subject of motherhood into focus as a valid topic for literary representation , even as she showed how it , along with economic “circumstances” and the restrictions imposed by race , class and sex , presented a major obstacle to women’s artistic creativity . speaking and writing during the 1960’s , 70’s and 80’s about the “silences” imposed on women , racial minorities and working class writers , olsen drew on her own experience to open new perspectives on the literary canon . her impetus led to a movement to recover lost and neglected writers of the past , encouraged other women to tell their stories and made olsen herself a revered icon of the women’s movement . she also was an outspoken advocate of human rights , racial and social justice .
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a biography of
tillie lerner olsen : a renegade , revolutionary , distinguished fiction and non - fiction writer , feminist , humanist , labor organizer and social activist . politically active , class conscious , deeply joined to the world , tillie countered the very core of american writing by immortalizing the lives of working class women and single mothers . . . extended interviews with olsen during the last years of her life are deftly interspersed with footage from her readings , lectures and book signings as well as with archive materials and comments from notable feminists
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this documentary is perfect for classroom use , if a bit long to fit within the time - frame of a 50 minute class . it is accessible and covers a lot of information about olsen’s life , the changing political climates across her life , her activism , her literary contributions and family life . it is ultimately a sympathetic and celebratory film that is a must - buy for any educational institution that teaches women’s studies , women’s literature , feminist or gender studies , working class studies and labor relations / activism . it is specifically because olsen wrote about women’s lives and working people that this film is a solid addition to collections that support women’s and working class curricula but also because of the life she lived as a feminist and labor activist .
filmmaker ann hershey tells not only the story of olsen as a writer , but also documents her life as an activist . extended interviews with olsen during the last years of her life are deftly interspersed with footage from her readings , lectures and book signings as well as with archive materials and comments from notable feminists such as gloria steinem and alice walker . a perfect companion film in courses covering olsen’s literature , this documentary is also recommended for women’s studies , labor studies , political studies and american history courses .
olsen smiles at the camera and says ,
that will be wonderful .
this disc is a recorded dvd and may not play on all dvd players or drives .
on the road ,
tillie didn ' t just sign a book . she wanted to talk to people , and it would be hours before the end of the line came ,
hershey says . olsen
looked you right in the eye and said , ' tell me about yourself . what are you up to ? are you writing ? you ' ve gotta write , because it ' s your story . '
olsen10 _ 010 _ lh . jpg director ann hershey spent seven years making a documentary about tillie olsen , the famed bay area writer and activist who died a year ago . liz hafalia / the chronicle / san francisco / 1 / 8 / 08 * ann hershey * cq �2007 , san francisco chronicle / liz hafalia mandatory credit for photog and san francisco chronicle . no sales - mags out . less
1 videodisc ( 67 min . ) : sound , color with black and white sequences ; 4 3 / 4 in .
works republished : olsen ' s
tell me a riddle
and her nonfiction book
silences
have been republished by the feminist press at the city university of new york , urltoken .
traveling with olsen around the country , to workshops and readings at american university in washington , d . c . , and louisiana state university , hershey heard countless people tell the writer how much her stories had meant to them .
nestled in the foothills of oakland , california , mills college is a nationally renowned , independent liberal arts college offering a dynamic progressive education that fosters leadership , social responsibility , and creativity to approximately 900 undergraduate women and 500 graduate women and men . since 2000 , applications to mills college have more than doubled . the college ranks as one of the top colleges in the west by u . s . news & world report and one of the best 366 colleges by the princeton review .
olsen ' s work spoke to people
because she was telling our stories , our family stories , writing about our grandparents , their lives and struggles ,
says hershey , who is in her 60s . other writers were dealing with those subjects , she adds ,
but there was something about tillie ' s writing that was accessible to us , that made such sense and was so moving .
responsibility a film by ann hershey . imprint berkeley , calif . : persimmon tree films , [ 2008 ] physical description 1 videodisc ( ca . 81 min . ) : sd . , col . with b & w sequences ; 4 3 / 4 in .
olsen wrote almost nothing of her own during the last 25 years of her life . she kept busy reading other people ' s manuscripts and writing blurbs , forewords and afterwords , says hershey , who thinks olsen was tired and
didn ' t have the energy to put into her own work anymore .
but the writer remained politically engaged . she marched in anti - iraq war demonstrations , and hershey can still picture her tacking flyers onto telephone poles a year or so before she became ill .
release date 2008 production date 2007 note originally produced in 2007 . production credits producer , director , editor , ann hershey . format recorded dvd ( ntsc ) .
“spectacularly shot…tillie reading her work will convince you she never left us . the way she wove her social activism with motherhood , aging , teaching and her fiction is an inspiration . ”
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labor historian and folklorist archie green , who did know olsen well , says
she was as good an any writer who emerged from the radical movement at that time .
but green was turned off by what he saw as
an element of self - pity
in her later work and persona and didn ' t buy into the notion that
somehow the world or the system had conspired against her creativity and kept her from writing .
still ,
tillie was true to her culture and her class and she had talent .
olsen ' s search for neglected women writers became the foundation of women ' s studies in colleges and universities across the country . her work broadened the definition of literature , led to the reprinting of books by forgotten authors , and inspired renowned writers including alice walker , ursula le guin , maxine hong kingston , and the former late mills professor of creative writing sheila ballantyne .
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for those who do not know olsen ' s work , this is a great introduction to the author ' s life as well as an introduction to her written work and its importance to the second wave feminist movement ( s ) . though she was radicalized through her work with socialist and labor movements , the documentary shows her legacy to be her writing about women , especially her collection of short stories
der kalender berühmte frauen erscheint seit über dreißig jahren , er ist der klassiker unter den taschenkalendern und ein unverzichtbares accessoire in jeder hand - und businesstasche . natürlich kennen wir rihanna , popsängerin , modedesignerin und model , oder jeanne moreau , die große bühnen - und filmschauspielerin . aber wer ist thérèse schwartze , die niederländische porträtmalerin , deren 100 . todestag 2018 ansteht ? oder cicely mary strode saunders , eine englische krankenschwester , sozialarbeiterin und ärztin ? sie gilt als die begründerin der modernen hospizbewegung und der palliativmedizin . diese und viele frauen mehr stellt luise f . pusch in ihrem neuen kalender berühmte frauen 2018 vor . monat für monat , tag für tag . dieses mal u . a . nadine angerer , alexandra fjodorowna , sarah kirsch und asta nilsson . eine fundgrube – jeden tag aufs neue .
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. . . my conflict - to reconcile work with life . . . time it festered and congested postponed deferred and once started up again the insane desire , like an aroused woman… . conscious of the creative abilities within me , more than i can encompass . . . 1953 - 54 : i keep on dividing myself and flow apart , i who want to run in one river and become great… . ( reid 190 ) .
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this film screening is co - sponsored by the english department , jewish studies program , and film studies at mills college . more information about the film is available at website www . thetillieolsenfilmproject . com .
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