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The success story of a three hundred crore women's cooperative - the Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad. Winner of the National Award and screened at festivals in Brisbane, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai and Delhi, among others.
Directed by Kadhambari Chintamani and Ajit Oomen | 2003
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Kadhambari Chintamani’s career in the film and television industry includes films and shows created for India’s premier production houses like Moving Pictures, Mudra News and Features, NDTV and Television Bazaar.
Ajit Oomen began his television career as an advertising copywriter, but the desire to do substantial television saw him move into directing current affairs and information based programmes – India Business Week for Star Plus, Style for BBC World and India dot com for CNN.
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: Mahesh Jayaraman
Cinematographer: Prakash Simwal
Location Sound Recordist: Murugan
Editor: Munishwer Singh
Narrator: Kadhambari Chintamani
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
The success story of a three hundred crore women's cooperative - the Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad. Winner of the National Award and screened at festivals in Brisbane, Bhubaneshwar, Chennai and Delhi, among others.
Directed by Kadhambari Chintamani and Ajit Oomen | 2003
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Kadhambari Chintamani’s career in the film and television industry includes films and shows created for India’s premier production houses like Moving Pictures, Mudra News and Features, NDTV and Television Bazaar.
Ajit Oomen began his television career as an advertising copywriter, but the desire to do substantial television saw him move into directing current affairs and information based programmes – India Business Week for Star Plus, Style for BBC World and India dot com for CNN.
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: Mahesh Jayaraman
Cinematographer: Prakash Simwal
Location Sound Recordist: Murugan
Editor: Munishwer Singh
Narrator: Kadhambari Chintamani
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
