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Ride a whale
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Konangal brings you a film from New Zealand this Sunday
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This time it is a film from New Zealand called Whale Rider. While it is a take on a 1000-year-old Maori folk lore, it has also been called “modern as a T-shirt”. It is a story of a people’s decline and a young girl’s battle to restore its pride. In a village on the North-East coast of New Zealand, drinking and joblessness are pandemic, the women chain-smoke and play cards all day, and the men are either in prison or have, like the girl’s father, Porourangi, fled to less hopeless climes. The girl Paikea is named after a mythical figure who led the Maoris to New Zealand on the back of a whale. She yearns to bring the glory and greatness back to her kin.
The story is one of love, rejection and triumph in a teenager who fights to fulfil her destiny.
Whale Rider was made in 2002 by Niki Caro. It won an Oscar nomination for the 13-year-old leading actor Keisha Castle-Hughes, and eight audience awards at prestigious international film festivals. Konangal screens the film on March 2, at 5.45 p.m. at Ashwin Hospital Auditorium. For details, call 94430-39630.
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