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Tracing the memories and legacies of an erstwhile principality, now submerged under a dam, through the stories of those left behind.
Directed by Amit Dutta | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Amit Dutta graduated in Film Direction from the Film and Television Institute of India. His films mostly engage with art, art history and alternative possibilities of the cinematic medium. He has won several national and international awards for his work in cinema and literature. His films include Nainsukh, Aadmi ki Aurat, Sonchidi, The Unknown Craftsman and The Seventh Walk. He has written several books, including Kaljayi Kambakht and The Invisible Webs. He has taught at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and FTII, Pune.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).
PSBT was a not-for-profit that has nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)
PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Recordist, Music Composer: Amit Dutta
Co-Editor: Anurag Verma
Researchers, Script Writers: Amit Dutta, Ayswarya S. Dutta
Animator, Graphic Designer: Ayswarya S. Dutta
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India
psbt.org/; ddindia.gov.in
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: June 2020
Tracing the memories and legacies of an erstwhile principality, now submerged under a dam, through the stories of those left behind.
Directed by Amit Dutta | 2019
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Amit Dutta graduated in Film Direction from the Film and Television Institute of India. His films mostly engage with art, art history and alternative possibilities of the cinematic medium. He has won several national and international awards for his work in cinema and literature. His films include Nainsukh, Aadmi ki Aurat, Sonchidi, The Unknown Craftsman and The Seventh Walk. He has written several books, including Kaljayi Kambakht and The Invisible Webs. He has taught at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and FTII, Pune.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).
PSBT was a not-for-profit that has nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)
PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographer, Editor, Sound Recordist, Music Composer: Amit Dutta
Co-Editor: Anurag Verma
Researchers, Script Writers: Amit Dutta, Ayswarya S. Dutta
Animator, Graphic Designer: Ayswarya S. Dutta
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India
psbt.org/; ddindia.gov.in
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: June 2020
