This film shows the sightless world of tiny Hassibullah and his sonic interpretations of space, day, time, seasons and the …
Kapila
Documentaries on Indian classical performing arts have been of two kinds. One, based on the history of the art form …
Images of Kumbh Mela
In 1960, the great filmmaker Bimal Roy had shot the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and Haridwar as background for his …
The Indian Documentary: Pre Independence Era
The Indian documentary may be traced back to the ‘factual films’ or Topicals as they were called, of Harishchandra Sakharam …
Fire in the Blood
“If one death is a tragedy, and one million deaths a statistic, then this film is about statistics,” says narrator …
Celluloid Man: A Perfect Paean to the Pictures
Of the more than 1000 films that were made in the silent era in India, only twenty nine exist today. …
Gulabi Gang
Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And …
Director’s Note: An American in Madras
It sounded almost unbelievable – An American? Who made Tamil Films in the 1930s and 40s? Directed the great MGR …
The Irony of Superheroes
In a city overrun by social and economical issues, escapism comes in the form of modest video remakes of popular …
Celluloid Man
A tribute to an extraordinary man called Mr PK Nair, who built the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) film …