Under the weekly film screenings a Punjabi film Anhe Ghore Da Daan was screened here on Sunday at Abhirang Auditorium, Bharat Bhavan. The screening did not receive a good response as few people visited the hall to watch the movie.

While talking to The Pioneer, in-charge of Chhavi series of classical cinema, Prem Shankar Shukla said, “Usually, the screenings receive a good response by the movie lovers of the city every week. But, this time only 45 people turned out to watch the show which is a disappointing fact.”

The film is all about a day in the life of a family in a village in Punjab as they deal with social and labor trials and inequities, leading to a night of a lunar eclipse. Anhe Ghore Da Daan ‘Alms for a Blind Horse’ in English is a highly acclaimed Punjabi language film which was released in 2011. The film is based on the Punjabi novel of the same title published in 1976 by Gurdial Singh.

The film won National Awards for Best Direction, Cinematography and Best Feature Film in Punjabi at the 59th National Film Awards of India. The film is set in a village in the outskirts of Bathinda city where villagers work in the fields of the local landlord. It is a village where people are trying hard to make peace with their existence. Daily rituals betray their simmering anger and their helplessness. The landlord has apparently sold his plots to an industry which has demolished the house of one of the villagers who refuses to vacate it.

The elderly farmer’s son is a rickshaw puller in the nearby town. The rickshaw pullers have gone on a strike that has turned violent. Both father and son are equally clueless about their futures. Anhe Ghore Da Daan is the first Punjabi-language film to have travelled to so many international film festivals.

It was screened in regional language that did not grab much audience during the screening at Bharat Bhavan here on Sunday.