Documentary

Arrival

Concerning the arrival of natural products such as vegetables and livestock as well as human labour into a city from rural areas, this film explores the product-commodity-exchange value relationship. Representing in itself a variety of exchange value, money as capital destroys the natural specificity of people and things. In the process, the labourer is reduced to a mere commodity.

An Encounter With Faces

This film, without narration, attempts to capture the mood and plight of the children's homes at Dongri and Mankhurd in Bombay. The delinquent children themselves narrate their problems and socio-economic plight they have to suffer. The film attempts to make general public aware about the condition of these delinquent children while emphasising the need for their rehabilitation.

Poovanam or Flower Garden

A tourist film is on South India showing various places of touristic interest in Madras, Kerala, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Goa. The film shows some of the important festivals like Onam in Kerala and Dussera in Mysore.

Feminine Fashions

The costumes of Indian women and the accessories which go with them are shown in this film besides the saree, a popular wear, the documentary exhibits the pherar of Kashmiri women, colourful dresses of the Khasi and Naga women of Assam, the salwar and Kameez of the Punjab and the garara and odhani worn by girls from Uttar Pradesh.

A Dream Takes Wings ( Dadasaheb Phalke )

A biographical documentary on Dadasaheb Phalke, the Father of Indian Cinema, produced to coincide with the Phalke birth centenary year.

A Passage in Time

Film is on historical progression & aesthetics of sculptural tradition of ancient Assam.

The Kingdom of God

Unfolding the web of thought woven from great diversity of India, this film presents the great Indian heritage of art, culture, religion, et al that mingles with the contemporary national mainstream. It focuses on various folk art traditions.

And The Bamboo Blooms

This film is a study on the relationship between the tribal’s and the bamboo as a relationship from birth to death. It investigates further into the flowering of bamboo in Manipur and Mizoram which has got environmental, economic and political dimensions.

Homage to the Teacher

The film shows the role of school teachers and the importance thereof.

Aum Namah Shivaya

Set forth on a journey of discovery, we are all pilgrims on the Planet Earth. Parvati, the Goddess of dance, daughter of the Himalayas and the consort of Shiva-Nataraja, brought the dance to the daughter of Earth. Various manifestations of the dance are found in India from the Himalayas in the north top to Kanyakumari in the south bottom. While wandering, she interacts with these sculpted myths by her devotion and offers her prayers to the Gods in the form of sacred Indian classical dances.

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