Majma – by Rahul Roy – 54 mins

Majma

Rahul Roy

Documentary/54 min/2001/India/Hindi with English Subtitles

Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazaar in near Jama Masjid in Delhi… Khalifa Barkat presides over an akhara (wrestling gym) in the adjacent park and puts a group of young men through the moral and physical grind of wrestling… Through the park and the market pass hundreds of men every day… Majma explores the instability and insecurity of working class lives and its impact on male sexuality and gender relations.

Majma has been made under a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

To be screened with Maachis Ko Sinka, Boy in the Branch and Breakin’ Mumbai.