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The Filmmaker's personal journey in the pursuit of answers to his mother’s illness and his own struggles. Screened at Thiruvananthapuram.
Directed by Pritam Das | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Pritam Das completed his graduation in Sound Recording from the Satyajit Ray Film and T.V. Institute, after which he started working as a location recordist and sound designer. He received the Apsara, Filmfare and International Indian Film Academy Awards for his work in the film Love, Sex aur Dhoka. He was the sound designer for Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai and other celebrated films.
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
Cinematographer and Sound Recordist: Pritam Das
Editors: Amitava Singha, Pritam Das
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the Films Division.
psbt.org/; filmsdivision.org
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: July 2020
The Filmmaker's personal journey in the pursuit of answers to his mother’s illness and his own struggles. Screened at Thiruvananthapuram.
Directed by Pritam Das | 2012
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Pritam Das completed his graduation in Sound Recording from the Satyajit Ray Film and T.V. Institute, after which he started working as a location recordist and sound designer. He received the Apsara, Filmfare and International Indian Film Academy Awards for his work in the film Love, Sex aur Dhoka. He was the sound designer for Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai and other celebrated films.
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
Cinematographer and Sound Recordist: Pritam Das
Editors: Amitava Singha, Pritam Das
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the Films Division.
psbt.org/; filmsdivision.org
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at distribution@psbt.org
Last updated: July 2020
