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...encounters Hazari, a poor Indian farmer masterfully played by Om Puri. Hazari has a family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story unravels as Max begins to help out at a free clinic in the slum that Hazari lives in. He starts out saying, "I hate sick people," but ends up finding a part of himself in them. By the end of the movie, he says, "I have never felt...
...denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor villagers and the landlord's draconian son, Ashok. He terrorizes the villagers, and wreaks havoc in their impoverished and already miserable lives...
...camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done, the audience lets out a barely audible sigh of relief. Or is it pleasure? For Ashok Rawat, 28, a building contractor, it is the latter. Says he: "Rape is enjoyable because in men's fantasies force is the only way to get women who are otherwise out of reach...
...During three days of discussions in New Delhi, including a meeting with Gandhi, the Tiger leader refused to go along, arguing that his fighters would not be safe without their weapons once Indian forces departed. Watched by paramilitary guards, Prabakaran remained confined to his room at the government-owned Ashok Hotel while the treaty was being initialed in Colombo. The Tiger leadership and several smaller rebel groups declared that they would not even consider laying down their arms until Prabakaran returned safely to Jaffna...
...crash had been triggered by a bomb. The presence of uninflated life rafts and the emergence of some bodies still wearing airline slippers, suggested that the passengers, most of them of Indian descent and many of them children, had been taken by surprise. "Explosion is considered a possibility," said Ashok Gehlot, India's Minister of State for Civil Aviation, "in view of the fact that the wreckage is spread over a wide area. Sabotage is a distinct possibility...