Algorithms follows three players, all in their teens, Darpan, Sai and Anant over 2 World Championships and the mentor of blind …
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 …
Gulabi Gang
Enter the badlands of Bundelkhand in central India and you have entered a place of desolation, dust and despair. And …
The Irony of Superheroes
In a city overrun by social and economical issues, escapism comes in the form of modest video remakes of popular …
BV Karanth – Baba
At a very young age BV Karanth ran away from his house in Babukodi village near Mangalore in Karnataka, South …
I’m The Very Beautiful
At an Alliance Francaise festival of documentaries last year, I chose to go on the day devoted to ‘Love and …
The XXX Factor
I often feel sorry for the ‘firang‘ producer/director making a documentary in India. Asking the right questions is the key …
An Ode To A Fish
One of the high points of my life as a filmmaker came sometime in August 2001. I was shooting a …
Untouchable (1935) – The Broken People
I have never read Mulk Raj Anand before. ‘Untouchable‘ describes the day in the life of a young untouchable boy, …