Name: SAME SALT
SKU: 69403622
Price: 244.00 ZAR
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Author: Rajeshwar Prasad
ISBN: 9798165065415

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SAME SALT

Rajeshwar Prasad (Author) · Independently published · Physical Book

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Synopsis "SAME SALT"

Book Title: SAME SALT(a screenplay)>One rope. And a forty-year-old grudge that started, as everyone has conveniently forgotten, over a goat.>Unique Points of the Screenplay-No villain: The story stands against fear alone, never against any person, caste, religion or nation. Nobody in it is the enemy.-Unseen women's work: The film honours unpaid labour, girls kept from school, widowhood and unsafe birth far from help.-Doctor and midwife as equals: Modern medicine and fifty years of hands-on knowledge teach each other.-Birth as a shared, sacred trust: The whole community takes part in a birth that is chosen, consented to and celebrated.-One image carries the theme: Tears, blood and the sea are all the same salt, and the Salt Doctor's line is "Taste your tears. Then taste the tears of the person next to you."-A bridge with no gate: The ending is hopeful and earned, and the baby's name, Luma, means "light" in both hamlets' tongues.-Easy to adapt: It suits stage, pilot, OTT, television or film, and expensive settings can be replaced with sound and projections.