in archive     

‘BOM" / aka 'One Day Ahead of Democracy’, 117 min, HDV/ HDCam, 2011


Supported by Sundance DFP, Jan Vrijman Fund (IDFA)
Co-produced with NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp)

Malana, a remote village in the Himalayas isolated for thousands of years, has been fostering a unique model of democracy of consensus. They have also been producing some of the best quality hashish. A real life story of transition; an ancient civilization being invaded and obliterated by the modern democracy. Narrated in an epic structure, a visual essay from the edge of the world with a universal message of trust, peace and eternal unity.

an ancient democracy in transition; through the eyes of two imaging devices - one old and one new. 

‘.in for motion’, 59 min, HDCam, 2008


funded by Jan Vrijman Fund (Netherlands), in association with BBC (UK),
YLE (Finland), Majade (Germany) 

A menagerie of miniscule human stories through highways and the information superhighway, the reach of commodity and information, the democracy of distribution and upgradation… interwoven, like beads of a necklace around a piece of thread - the changing India pics remains the same as before

‘Cock-a-doodle Do'
a 3 min short


 bored with simple village stuff the young cock starts off on his journey to the city in search of better food

a musical tale of what his fate awaits there...

'Chronicle of an Amnesiac', 2007
a documentary film under production for NHK, Japan


the transit to nonexistence- globalization and an old cosmopolitan

The film meets a few characters who are in the process of disappearing into the domain of amnesia.

‘Song of the Mountains’, 2005
a 23 min documentary, DVCam

‘Before you study Zen,
mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers;

When you study Zen,
mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers;

But once one has enlightenment,
the mountains are once again mountains and rivers again rivers.’


NO DIALOGUES, NO VOICEOVER, NO EXTERNAL MUSIC
IMAGES WOVEN TOGETHER IN A SYMPHONY OF SOUND AND SILENCE
 

‘Everything Remains : a film on Chitpur Road’, 1998, BetaCam

 A 53 mins video documentary film on the life around Calcutta’s oldest road,
 Chitpur Road – a living museum, a journey through time

Who says time flies, it flies nowhere...
It gathers on your face, on your limbs,
I’ve seen it gathering on me walking down
This city street three hundred years old...

‘3793 - let darkness be history' a product launch video for Eveready Torch

‘Circle of Magic' a corporate video for Airtel (Bihar & Jharkhand circle)

'Balmerol - keeping the nation in motion’ a corporate video for the country's oldest lubricant brand

‘Anmol Marie - golden ball’  TVC

‘Ford Shoes’ TVC