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Portraits of Belonging: Sagira Begum

rajesh — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:23:26 +0000

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.

12 December 2009
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Sabad Nirantar

rajesh — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:07:07 +0000

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.

26 September 2009
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Rabba Hun Kee Kariye

rajesh — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:02:01 +0000

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.

19 September 2009
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Out of Thin Air

rajesh — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:53:46 +0000

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.

12 September 2009
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Prisoners of Conscience

rajesh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:13:00 +0000

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.

5 September 2009
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Kitte Mil Ve Mahi

rajesh — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:54:05 +0000

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.

22 August 2009
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Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears

rajesh — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:56:22 +0000

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

8 August 2009
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We Homes Chaps

rajesh — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:28:42 +0000

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

1 August 2009
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My Migrant Soul

rajesh — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:17:57 +0000

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

25 July 2009
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I am the Very Beautiful

rajesh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:47:36 +0000

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

11 July 2009
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