Jai Bhim Comrade

Jai Bhim Comrade
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Directed byAnand Patwardhan
Produced byAnand Patwardhan
CinematographySimantini Dhuru, Anand Patwardhan
Edited byAnand Patwardhan
Music byVilas Ghogre
Release date
  • September 2011 (2011-09) (Film South Asia)
Running time
199 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesEnglish, Hindi, Marathi

Jai Bhim Comrade is a 2011 Indian documentary film directed by Anand Patwardhan. The film begins with a description of police violence in the 1997 Ramabai killings. It goes on to explore various aspects of the lives and politics of Dalit people in Mumbai. The film took 14 years to produce, and was released in 2011 after the conclusion of the court trials that followed the Ramabai incident. The film was widely shown both nationally and internationally, and received an overwhelmingly positive reaction. It has won numerous national and international awards.[1]

  1. ^ Matzner, Deborah (Fall 2014). "Jai Bhim Comrade and the Politics of Sound in Urban Indian Visual Culture". Visual Anthropology Review. 30 (4): 127–138. doi:10.1111/var.12043.