My Mirror is the Door

My Mirror is the Door 2012

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The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which women poets were a very strong presence.

2012

Decoding Shankar

Decoding Shankar 1970

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A celebration of the work of singer/composer Shankar Mahadevan with interviews from various Indian celebrities.

1970

The House On Gulmohar Avenue

The House On Gulmohar Avenue 2005

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A film about home and belonging, tracing the filmmaker's personal journey to understand what it means to be a Muslim in India today.

2005

A Journey Extraordinary

A Journey Extraordinary 2012

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The film celebrates the beauty of plural India through the genre of the road movie.

2012

The Books We Made

The Books We Made 2016

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The Film is inspired by the work of Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon, who co-founded the first feminist publishing house in India: Kali for Women. It looks back on thirty years in publishing and focusses on the feminist politics and friendships that make this survival possible.

2016

Palace of the Winds

Palace of the Winds 2003

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Vipin Vijay's Palace of the Winds is a poetic essay about that "Holy Little Box," the radio, conceived of as a ghostly transmitter of Indian cultural artifacts.

2003

About Elsewhere

About Elsewhere 2007

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About Elsewhere seeks to foreground the impossibility of fixing notions of sexuality through ideas of 'identity' and 'language'. As the film moves through the various worlds the filmmaker inhabits, it suggests a self in constant formation; one that constructs itself from parts and places that are in themselves, fragments of memory and experience.

2007

Ormajeevikal (Memory Beings)

Ormajeevikal (Memory Beings) 2019

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An impressionistic film that paints a picture of Kozhikode in North Kerala and the spiritual immersion of its ordinary town-dwellers in music. A reflective essay traversing a music culture that is cosmopolitan, having strong local and global influences, it explores the music and memories of the city and its people.

2019

The Ebb Tide

The Ebb Tide 2019

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Shot in the monsoon of 2018 in the Mirya creek in Maharashtra, the film records the unfolding of fishermen and fishing processes in the village of Mirya. It seeks to highlight some of the troubled and lived realities of the fishing community in the current times in an Indian village. The film is also a deliberation on the process of production of the film itself.

2019

There is Something in the Air

There is Something in the Air 2011

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As a call from the periphery of sanity, the film is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women 'petitioners' at the shrine of a Sufi Saint in North India.

2011

Being Bhaijaan

Being Bhaijaan 2014

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Bajrangi Bhaijaan explores how ideas of masculinity in India are tied to Salman Khan fandom. It tries to understand what eco-blockbuster-manufactured machismo has on the Indian male already struggling with his identity in a globalized world. The story of a Salman Khan look-alike Shan Ghosh, and his two fans Balram and Bhaskar

2014

Certified Universal

Certified Universal 2009

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An impressionistic sketch of ‘the public’ as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself.

2009

Where the Taro Grows

Where the Taro Grows 1970

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As the region of Barak Valley, Assam, India, is swiftly giving way to newer formations, structures, and beliefs, two siblings converse over the phone about their deserted childhood home situated in the same region while residing far from it.

1970

My Camera and Tsunami

My Camera and Tsunami 2011

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The story of a camera that perished in a Tsunami. The Film shares special moments that the Filmmaker experienced with his camera, a special bonding over a period of four years, creating cinematic imagery, relating, exploring, seeking and interpreting notions of his reality. It is a memory of a camera which perished in the tsunami, along with its last filmed footage – elusive images, evoking multiple possibilities, seeking parallels and new perspectives.

2011

CORAL WOMAN

CORAL WOMAN 2019

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Story of the filmmaker's journey with Uma, a certified scuba diver, exploring the underwater world and the threat to coral reefs of Gulf of Mannar, India. Born in a traditional family in Tamil Nadu, 53 year old Uma, a homemaker, has been trying to bring attention to this alarming environmental issue through her paintings. It is, in fact, these corals that inspired Uma to learn how to swim, dive and paint in her 50s.

2019

A Drop of Sunshine

A Drop of Sunshine 2011

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Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' challenges these notions. It questions the mainstream view of the condition and seeks alternate ways of recovering from it. Through the powerful story of its young and gutsy protagonist, Reshma Valiappan, it seeks to give viewers a new vocabulary to address the stigmatized mental illness. The film proposes that the only treatment method that can work in Schizophrenia is one where the so-called 'patient' is encouraged and empowered to become an equal partner in the process of healing.

2011

My Own City

My Own City 2011

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The gendered looks of metropolitan Delhi become a camera eye, sketching the everyday life of a female driver exposed to the male gaze. The experience of women who live in this city is embodied in a mirage like images constructed by the director.

2011

D'Cruz and Me

D'Cruz and Me 2018

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A free-flowing and intimate documentary on a maverick character from the Tollywood film industry, Kolkata, who has been in the doldrums because of serious addiction issues.

2018

Some Stories Around Witches

Some Stories Around Witches 2016

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Stories of some people in Odisha, accused, ostracized and tortured for being ‘witches’, pointing to a deeper crisis.

2016