This film by Medhavinee Namjoshi takes the film maker-narrator to a municipal school playground in Mumbai,India. She tells the story of how some girls are breaking the rules that forbid them from playing so-called boys' games in open spaces. We get an inside view of the tensions between the genders at middle school level, in the words of the girls, boys and an interested sports teacher.
Vacha is a resource organisation of Mumbai, which runs several centres for girls and women in the bastis (slums) of Santa Cruz and adjacent areas. In their 'Bole Kishori' (Girls speak out) project, they create opportunities for girls to express themselves through writing, drawing, photography, theatre and slideshow presentations, encouraging them to read and discuss issues critically.
This film came out of a training in video-making for the young women who facilitate this activity in local communities. The facilitators will now train the girls to tell their own stories through the medium of video. The training was designed and conducted by Comet Media Foundation.
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