An artist relentlessly sprays silhouettes on public walls tagged #missing, an activist accompanies rescued girls across international borders. Parallel narratives intersect to reveal a sliver of hope when women imaginatively challenge a powerful trafficking nexus operating in a country where every 8 minutes a child goes missing.
Awards: Awarded BAFTA Breakthrough 2024, Awarded the Global Media Makers fellowship (USA), awarded `Hatched 2023’ grant for social impact by Chicken & Egg Pictures (USA), Docaviv Award (Israel), Yes Foundation’s Social Documentary Award. Global Film and Media Initiative Award (Sweden). awarded InMaat Foundation production grant (USA), awarded EIDF (South Korea) Industry Choice Award and Shortlisted for Breaking Through the Lens (Cannes). Selected by South Asian House and Global Media Makers for Special International Women’s Day Screening in a run up to the SXSW Festival in Austin March 2022, Nominated at the Toronto International Women’s Film Festival March 2022, Semi finalist at Angeles Docs, Nominated One World Media Awards (UK) for Feature documentary, official selection at the International Social Change Film Festival, Official Selection at Tasveer South Asian Film Festival in Seattle, Official Selection EIDF (Korea) and winner at the Madurai International Film Festival. Selection in competition at International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) August 2022, Headlined the Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival November 2022, Selected as part of Samabhav a travelling film festivals organized by Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA) in campuses across India
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An indigenous family finds they are at the centre of an imaginative battle to preserve the green lungs of India’s commercial capital and the leopard the tribe worships.
Winner at the One World Media Awards UK 2023 (London), Awarded BAFTA Breakthrough 2024, Selected for the Global Short Docs Forum (UK).
Winner All Living Things Environment Film Festival (India), Jury Special Mention at IDSFFK (Trivandrum) , Official selection at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival USA (New York) , Official selection at the Women’s International Film Festival (Alapuzha), Official Selection Green Screen Festival Germany (Eckenforde), Nomination Indian Film Festival of Stuttgart Germany (Stuttgart), Semi finalist Berlin Women’s Film Festival (Berlin), Official Selection BIFED Film Festival (Turkey), Official Selection International Social Justice Film Festival (India), Official Selection Filmmakers for Change Film Festival (USA), Official Selection Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (Mumbai), Official Selection Madurai International Film Festival (Madurai), Official Selection Bangalore International film Festival (Bengaluru), Official selection Festival des Cinemas d’Asie (Vesoul, France)
A coming of age film in Karachi’s most volatile district about four young girls who attend rockstar Hamza Jafri’s music school amidst cycles of violence. World Premiere at IDFA where it was nominated for the AWFEJ Award and at Sheffield where it was nominated for the Youth Jury Award, opening film at the Kochi Biennale and Winner of the IDPA Long form Documentary Award (Silver)
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A film that focuses on the experiment to bring electricity to a remote village in Jharkhand using bio diesel. It follows the ups and downs of a community determined to improve their lives. Armed with the knowledge of how to manufacture bio diesel from locally grown oil seeds and barely any other resources…they set out on their quest.
A legion of hired killers stalks the streets of Mumbai. The victim senses danger and dives into a gutter. The glare of a searchlight strikes him. He freezes. THWACK!! Ganesh picks up his victim and throws him amongst a heap of dead bodies. He has killed twenty this night, another ten to go before sunrise. Ganesh is one of 50 men hired by Mumbai’s Municipal Corporation to kill rats. They take to the streets armed with their weapons of mouse destruction – a torch and stick. They are led by Behram Harda the legendary Pied Piper of Mumbai who has killed 2.8 million rats in 37 years. He motivates his team to wage a relentless battle every night against an army of rodents that threaten to overrun India’s commercial capital.
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Witness the thousand year old tradition of camel racing entering the realm of science fiction...when Qatar decides to silence international criticism by banning the use of child jockeys and introducing robots instead. A film about the race to create a robot to take over the camel races…a challenge that begins with coaxing cantankerous camels to accept a metallic rider and culminating with camel owners struggling to embrace the new technology. Can robots win the hearts and imagination of the camel crazy public? Will the wealthy sheikhs be tempted to look beyond tradition and spearhead cutting edge robotic science? Follow the gripping account of the races that will determine whether technology can truly break into the traditional bastion of Bedouin camel racing. A film that combines adrenaline and science to bring alive a spectacular sport pushing the realms of popular science.
Paints a vivid picture of Mumbai’s original inhabitants the koli fisherfolk and their fight to continue a traditional livelihood in India’s commercial capital. The narrative unfolds in the very year that the tsunami tidal wave devastated the lives and livelihood of fishermen across the coast of South East Asia including India. The documentary premiered at `Water Journeys’, an international film festival on water related issues held at the Alliance Francaise, Bangalore. It was also included in the 2005 Vatavaran (Environment Film Festival) Panorama.
Every year in India the birthday of the Hindu God, Lord Krishna is celebrated with great fanfare. An earthen pot filled with milk/ butter is hung at a great height. Groups of boys then reenact the role of little Krishna or Govinda and his childish greed for butter. They form human pyramids by climbing on each other’s shoulders and attempt to break the earthen pot. Slipping, sliding…even a few broken bones are part of this macho sport. The group that breaks the pot will be rewarded. In a housing society in Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum, a group of govindas tries to break the pot but things are going a little differently…Finalist for the Webtalkies Festival, Nautanki TV
A drugged tourist, two corrupt cops and many plops...
A poignant account of the acrobatic ferris wheel operators on Mumbai’s Juhu beach and their underground theatre movement that comes alive every night as the rest of the city slumbers. The film was chosen for the UNESCO-PSBT international panorama 2003.