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| Made in India [38] | |||||
| Madhushree Dutta | |||||
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A
rural artist paints her autobiography, Bollywood movie icons’ images
get erased after the weekly run of the film, the national flag flutters
on 150 kites, installation artist paints pop icons on the rolling
shutters of shops, religious icons jostle for attention with plastic
flowers on the vendor’s cart, metaphors of life cycle adorn the mud
wall of a home, neighbourhood boys craft the tale of WTC and the sale of
toy planes goes up. Symbols of nationalism become a fashionable
commodity. |
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Majma [54] | ||||
| Rahul Roy | |||||
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Aslam
seals medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazar near
Jama Masjid in Delhi. Khalifa Barkat presides over an akhara in the adjacent park
and puts a group of young men through the moral and physical grind of
wrestling. Through the park
and the market pass hundreds of men everyday.
Majma explores the instability of working class lives and its
impact on male sexuality and gender relations. |
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Malegaon ke Sholey [30] | ||||
| Nitin Sukhija | |||||
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The
film traces the progress of a community in a small town in Maharashtra
in search of a new identify – that of a parallel film industry |
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Manjuben Truckdriver [52] | ||||
| Sherna Dastur | |||||
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Manjuben
has broken the gender stereo-types which are part of the social
landscape she inhabits. She has created an identity for herself that is
deliberately male, that of a macho trucker, commanding respect from her
peers. Yet, Manjuben is no crusader. She is just as patriarchal as the
next person. |
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Manus Majhe Naav [30] | ||||
| Ajay Raina | |||||
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An
inspirational account of Baba Amte, his life and work told spontaneously
by the people he touched by his compassion. |
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| Men in the Tree, The [98] | |||||
| Lalit Vachani | |||||
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In
1993, Lalit Vachani completed The
Boy in the Branch, a documentary about the indoctrination of young
Hindu boys by a branch of the RSS, India’s foremost Hindu
fundamentalist group. Eight years later, Vachani revisited the subjects
of his earlier film, to explore the rise of the RSS and its Hindutva
ideology. |
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| Miles to Go [58] | |||||
| Nina Subramani | |||||
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A
bus journey across India - 7 states, 6000 kilometres in just 60 days.
This is a story of individuals fighting all odds for their basic rights
- a story of a thousand revolutions in a thousand Bhopals. |
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| Naata [45] | |||||
| A.Monteiro & K.P. Jayasankar | |||||
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Naata
is about Bhau Korde and Waqar Khan, two activists and friends, who have
been working with neighbourhood peace committees in Dharavi, Mumbai,
reputedly, the largest 'slum' in Asia. Naata juxtaposes the
multi-layered narrative on Dharavi and the 'stories' of the filmmakers,
thereby attempting to foreground a critical and active viewership. |
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| Naga Story-The Other Side of Silence [62] | |||||
| Gopal Menon | |||||
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The
Nagas are a 3-million-strong indigenous people who occupy the North-East
frontier of the Indian subcontinent. The Naga political struggle is one
of the oldest nationality movements in South Asia, continuing till
present times. The film provides an introduction to the history of the
Naga struggle, and documents the human rights abuses suffered by the
people in more than 50 years of the existence of Independent India. |
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New (Improved) Delhi [6] | ||||
| Vani Subramanian | |||||
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Amid
increasing superhighways, hatchback vehicles, multinational corporations
and the suburban syndrome the metropolis has no space for the
embarrassment and horror of the poor and their slums, or the ugly shadow
they cast over Delhi’s glistening self-image. |
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