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IN Documentaries

Portraits of Belonging: Sagira Begum

An Old Delhi neighbourhood full of highly skilled craftspeople struggles to survive, to keep some fragment of its poetry in a city whose priorities are far more prosaic.

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12 December 09 | BY Sameera Jain
Sabad Nirantar

If there was ever a need to remind ourselves of the need for the profound in our everyday life, and its enduring place among those we refer to as ‘common’ folk, then this film nudges us to that doorstep.

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26 September 09 | BY Rajula Shah
Rabba Hun Kee Kariye

Could it be that 62 years on, the scars of the Partition violence have still not healed because there is so little voluntary admission of guilt, so much glorified victimhood? Here’s a narrative finally that trains its gaze at the perpetrators.

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19 September 09 | BY Ajay Bhardwaj
Out of Thin Air

This film offers many of the old-fashioned pleasures of the documentary: it takes us to an unfamiliar place and tells us an unknown story. In this case it’s also an unexpected story.

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12 September 09 | BY Samreen Farooqui, Shabani Hassanwalia
Prisoners of Conscience

It could have been a period piece about political prisoners and state repression during the Emergency. But 30 years after it was made, the film still rings with contemporary relevance.

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5 September 09 | BY Anand Patwardhan
Kitte Mil Ve Mahi

This is not the prosperous Punjab of its airbrushed mythology. This is a story of its impoverished Dalits and how they have come to be the keepers of the Sufi way of life.

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22 August 09 | BY Ajay Bhardwaj
Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears

With her, no outcome could be final. The story of a Bangladeshi girl who battles familial mores to follow her heart.

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8 August 09 | BY Simon Chambers
We Homes Chaps

A lyrical exploration of remembrances of things past, of the sunny innocence of childhood, of the mellow contours of pain from an undefined loss...

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1 August 09 | BY Kesang Tseten
My Migrant Soul

A look at the benighted fate of migrant labour who fall so easily for the lure of a better paying foreign job.

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25 July 09 | BY Yasmine Kabir
I am the Very Beautiful

An unexpected insight into how love finds its way around seemingly irreconciliable differences

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11 July 09 | BY Shyamal Kumar Karmakar