Reviews
“Films like “Lakshmi and Me” ought to be shown on
prime time television, in housing societies in a city like Mumbai, in schools
and colleges. As a society, we are becoming increasingly blind and indifferent
to the existence of people who hold up our homes, our lives, our cities. Such
films should help open our eyes and our minds…”
read more on ‘The Invisible Women’ by Kalpana
Sharma
http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2007/12/30/stories/2007123050110300.htm
“Despite the Dickensian overtones—sniffling broods of
grubby children and morose adults occupy shanties and alleyways; their presence
neither accounted for, nor alluded to—Lakshmi and Me is not a didactic
narrative from which the viewer is meant to glean the value of life. Instead,
by focusing on the precarious and often sisterly relationship between herself
and Lakshmi, Jain has offered us a frank look at the almost comically labelled
“domestic” class.”
read more on ‘The Bleak House’ by Tara
Kilachand, Live Mint, Mumbai
http://www.livemint.com/2008/03/15004056/Bleak-House.html
“It is the acceptance of Nishtha and her camera by all the
people in Lakshmi’s life that makes the film an absorbing tale, far more
compelling than all the reality shows doctored for television these
days.”
Read more on ‘Maid in
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/life/2008/03/07/stories/2008030750020100.htm
“Nishtha Jain finds the conviction to step across the line
to try and make sense out of age-old barriers and understand what really lies
on the other side…”
read more on ‘Maid in
"Lakshmi and Me" stands apart from the crowd…
Nishtha Jain, a talented and poetic Indian woman, has made a deeply personal
film about modern
read more on ‘Lakshmi and Me: Meeting the
Others’ by Karoline Leth, Danish Film #60
http://www.dfi.dk/tidsskriftetfilm/60/lakshmiandme.htm
“But the big show stealer of the day for me was Lakshmi and
Me by Nishtha Jain. The shy and awkward Lakshmi was nothing but graceful on the
screen. Her words and sentences exuded nothing but confidence and
forthrightness. Nishtha was able to bring out on camera what you can on canvas,
if you splashed bottles and bottles of various hues. The result is a white
space dribbling with content.”
Read more on http://www.campus18.com/Blogs/BlogDetail.aspx?ID=607
“The film brilliantly explores the symbiotic roles of mistress
and maid, filmmaker and subject, speaker and listener, to raise key global
issues as diverse as the politics of domesticity, gender and class relations,
ethics, and documentary.”
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more on http://www.fullframefest.org/festival/films/view/133
Arte interview
http://www.arte.tv/fr/histoire-societe/Inde-2025/Incredible-India-_3F/1999582,CmC=1999588.html
Radio interview:
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/thestatewerein/tswiradioprogramme/tswi-prog32
http://download.omroep.nl/rnw/smac/cms/tswi_080105_lakshmi_mp3_en_080105_44_1kHz.mp3
Other Links
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1148653
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Maid-in-Mumbai/266584/
www.itvs.org/international/filmmakers/lakshmi.html
www.idfa.nl/en/programme/festival-2007/film.aspx?id=29957
www.ica.org.uk/Lakshmi%20and%20Me+16158.twl
http://www.jedensvet.cz/ow/2008/index_en.php?id=164
http://www.cultuurnet.nl/berichten/inhoud.asp?show=17132
www.deckert-distribution.com/all_deckertdistribution_films.htm
www.myvillagelondon.co.uk/london/arts-movie-Lakshmi_and_Me.htm
http://kultura.aktualne.centrum.cz/event.phtml?kat=1&eventID=171706260655991569&ord=show