On and Off the Records @PSBTIndia
On and Off the Records  @PSBTIndia
Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Awarded at Kathmandu and screened at Bhubaneswar, Mumbai and Panaji, the intimate relationship between Hindustani Classical music and recording technology.

Directed by Pratik Biswas | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Pratik Biswas is a self-taught sound technician with over two decades of experience. He has worked with reputed music labels in more than hundred audio albums of Indian classical, devotional, contemporary and experimental music, including legends like Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ustad Zakir Hussain. Son-et-Lumière shows installed at prominent heritage sites of India are an expression of his technical as well as creative abilities.

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 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
Script Writers: Pratik Biswas, Tapas Panda
Cinematographers: Karan Thapliyal, Sushmit Ghosh, Pranab Kr. Aich
Audiographer: Manas Ranjan Tarai
Editors: Pratik Biswas, Chandrakant Mehara, Vishal Chauhan
Sound Designer: Gangotri Pratik Biswas

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: August 2020
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