Click to play videoMumbai: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan lent his support to Shonali Bose's controversial film Amu by launching the DVD of the film based on the 1984 Sikh riots in Delhi.
Actor Aamir Khan unveiled the DVD of debutant director Shonali Bose's national award winning movie Amu.
Starring Konkana Sen, the movie is based on the infamous 1984 Sikh riots. It is the dramatised version of the carnage seen through the eyes of an Indian American girl from Los Angeles, who travels across the world to find answers about her birth.
“I have seen the film. It is a heart wrenching and heart breaking film, but that is because of the subject it deals with. I feel it is a very important film,” says Aamir Khan.
“It is a very important film. It was a learning experience for me acting in it because these things are not told to you until you have someone in your family who can tell you about it. It is not something that is taught in schools and the story is told in a beautiful and compassionate way,” says Konkana Sen.
After getting an adult certificate from the censors, Amu looses the bleakest of possibilities of a television premiere in India, and hence at such a time a DVD launch holds great significance for the director who feels it is a film which heals and not wounds.
“The 1984 riots weren’t about the Hindu or Muslims. It was an organised carnage by those in power,” says director Shonali Bose.
It is an opportunity for admirers of good cinema to grab a DVD of Amu, which comes with an absolute uncut version.
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