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Apr 20, 2013 News
The latest Guyanese movie, “Brown Sugar Too Bitter for Me”, is set for an official red-carpet launch this evening at the National Cultural Centre.
The screenings are scheduled to continue at the same venue on Sunday and Monday, commencing at 19:00 hrs each night.
Patrons will be afforded the opportunity to experience the red carpet walk which is generally associated with movie launches overseas and which has been in place for similar endeavours under the auspices of Mahadeo
Shivraj Productions and the Dramatic Arts Academy.
The production has already received overwhelming support via the Astro cinema in West Demerara and at the Satya cinema in Mahaicony earlier this month.
Now it is time for the people of East Bank Demerara to enjoy Mahadeo Shivraj’s latest work. Shivraj is hoping to receive similar support from the city folks.
This production, “Brown Sugar Too Bitter for Me”, follows “Till I Find A Place” and “A Jasmine for a Gardener” which were released in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
Shivraj, along with his full cast and crew members, have expressed profound gratitude for the responses the movie has received thus far.
“Brown Sugar Too Bitter for Me” is a poignant tale of love, devotion, and social injustice on a sugar plantation in Guyana.
Ram, a cane cutter is trapped on the sugar plantation because of his lack of skills and education. He considers the plantation a prison and is only able to break out and forget the hopelessness of his station in life when he is imbibing adulterated rum at the village rum shop, the only entertainment centre for the impoverished sugar workers.
His wife, Leela, also a plantation worker, reconciles herself to the terrible conditions of plantation life and is able to cope by seeing the beauty in the cane fields that have trapped her husband.
Ram and Leela were cognizant of the iniquities of plantation life and vowed that their sons would not inherit the legacy. They devoted all their love and resources to their children and encouraged them to make a clean break from cane sugar both physically and mentally.
Despite the intrigues of plantation life and the machination of the conniving money lender, the two boys were able to make a break with Raj migrating to the U.S.A and Arjun able to attend the local university.
The full story can be seen on screen tomorrow night.
Given the main theme and its setting within the sugar belt, the film is aptly dedicated to the Enmore Martyrs and to the 175th anniversary of the arrival of East Indian indentured immigrants in Guyana.
The movie which has thirteen songs, some originals and some redone by overseas-based Guyanese, stars Mahadeo Shivraj, Radika Olharte, Michael Ignatius, Neaz Subhan, Aditya Persaud, Shivanie Latchman of the Ishara Dance Troupe, Derek Gomes, Kijana Lewis, Mark Luke Edwards, Shameza Mohamed, Akash Persaud, Nadir Bacchus and many others.
Tickets for this weekend’s screenings are available at the venue (NCC).
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