Documentary

Food for Work

This film highlights the benefits brought about by the Food for Work scheme. Such payment in kind (i.e. food grains) to the working people living in teeming poverty helped them get two meals a day. Food for Work was an effective employment scheme in rural areas, especially for the land-less, unemployed people.

Indian New Wave, The : A Movement, A World, A Cinema (Bharatiy Cinema Ki Nayi Lahar)

A Young actor and budding filmmakers quest to understand the new wave movement in Indian Cinema, that flourished at a time and try to understand the reasons for the decline.

You Too can save Lives

Film depicts how first responders can save a life by starting CPR ( Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation ) promptly. The instructions and learning of CPR by rescuers in the film will aware the people and save lives.

Sadhei Kala Chhau Dance

This film highlights the manner in which the sadhei kala chhau dance form and their traditions have developed with a classical base from the code of Bharata's Natyashastra, which is unique.

Rural Energy Non Conventional

The film shows how energy can be produced in rural areas through conventional sources like the sun, water & wind etc. for domestic, commercial & agricultural use. Life in rural areas can be much happier, cleaner & pollution free with the use of these sources of energy.

Rise of The Studio System in Western India

The film traces the rise of the studios system from silent era till its golden period before World War II, when there was the transition from the cottage industry stage to an industrial one. After 1945 there was a decline due to various reasons.

Ravi Shankar

"Ravi Shankar" is a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his versatile personality as a well-known classical performer and a creative composer of Indian Music.

Pankaj Mullick

Pankaj Mullick was a great popular music composer and singer of Bengal. In this film he talks about his musical journey. In 1925, Rabindranath Tagore heard of young man, who it was said sang one of his poems most beautifully. This led to a meeting at which Pankaj Mullick sang for Tagore.Mullick was one of the pioneers of music broadcasting in India.He held a music teaching programme on radio every Sunday for 45 years untill just before his death. Mullick who introduced KL Saigal to the radio, also composed music for a number of Bengali films produced by the New Theatres.

Khalasis of malabar - Men who move mountains

There is a saying in Malayalam ‘Othupidichal Malayum Porum’. This translates as ‘team work can move mountains’. Anyone who has seen the Khalasis of Malabar region in action will feel the ring of truth in this saying. Watching the Khalasis at work is an amazing experience. The heavy objects they handle could be a ship to be launched or a huge girder weighing tonnes. The dexterity of the Khalasis ensures that the work proceeds steadily and smoothly. The simple tools they use are designed and put together by themselves according to the situation.

A Quiet Revolution-The Battle For Schools.

This film examines the journeys of some people from bonded labour to liberation and the policy of education as an instrument of social change.

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