India retold : dialogues with independent documentary filmmakers in India / edited by Rajesh James and Sathyaraj Venkatesan

Contributor(s): Rajesh James [editor] | Sathyaraj Venkatesan [editor]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Bloomsbury India, 2025ISBN: 9789361319099Subject(s): Documentary films -- India -- History and criticism | Documentary films -- Production and direction -- India | Independent films -- India -- History and criticism | Motion picture producers and directors -- India -- Interviews | Motion picture industry--IndiaDDC classification: 791.430954 Other classification:
Contents:
Anand Patwardhan -- Tapan Bose -- Amar Kanwar -- Rakesh Sharma -- Gopal Menon -- Nakul Singh Sawhney -- Kasturi Basu -- Deepa Dhanraj -- Madhusree Dutta -- Saba Dewan -- Paromita Vohra -- Rahul Roy -- Surabhi Sharma -- Nishtha Jain -- Sridhar Rangayan -- Amudhan R.P. -- Divya Bharathi -- Sanjay Kak -- Meghnath -- Shriprakash -- Biju Toppo -- Iffat Fatima -- R.V. Ramani -- Pankaj Rishi Kumar -- Anjali Monteiro/K.P. Jayasankar -- Haobam Paban Kumar -- Bilal A. Jan -- Stanzin Dorjai Gya -- Raja Shabir Khan -- Mukul Haloi.
Summary: "India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize the engagement of independent documentary filmmakers with the postcolonial India and its discourses with a focus on their independent documentary practices. Structured as an interview collection, the book examines how these documentary filmmakers, though not a homogeneous category, practice their independence through their ideology, their filmmaking praxis, their engagement with the everyday and their formal experiments. As a sparsely studied filmmakers, the book through meticulously tracing a wide ranging historical transitions (often marked by communal conflicts and the forces of globalization) not only details the ways in which independent filmmakers in India address the questions of postcolonial nation and its modernist projects but also explores their idiosyncratic views of these filmmakers which are characterized by a definitive departure from the logic of commercial films or state-sponsored documentary films. More important in many ways, these documentary filmmakers expose incongruences in national institutions and programs, embrace the voice of the underrepresented, and thus, imagine an alternative vision of the nation. During the last three years of the execution of the project, thirty Indian documentary filmmakers are interviewed in this book. Given the dearth of quality interviews and little theoretical engagement with documentary as a genre, this book would not only fill in the gap in scholarship but also would serve as an authentic guide for interested readers and for documentary filmmakers alike"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.

Anand Patwardhan -- Tapan Bose -- Amar Kanwar -- Rakesh Sharma -- Gopal Menon -- Nakul Singh Sawhney -- Kasturi Basu -- Deepa Dhanraj -- Madhusree Dutta -- Saba Dewan -- Paromita Vohra -- Rahul Roy -- Surabhi Sharma -- Nishtha Jain -- Sridhar Rangayan -- Amudhan R.P. -- Divya Bharathi -- Sanjay Kak -- Meghnath -- Shriprakash -- Biju Toppo -- Iffat Fatima -- R.V. Ramani -- Pankaj Rishi Kumar -- Anjali Monteiro/K.P. Jayasankar -- Haobam Paban Kumar -- Bilal A. Jan -- Stanzin Dorjai Gya -- Raja Shabir Khan -- Mukul Haloi.

"India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize the engagement of independent documentary filmmakers with the postcolonial India and its discourses with a focus on their independent documentary practices. Structured as an interview collection, the book examines how these documentary filmmakers, though not a homogeneous category, practice their independence through their ideology, their filmmaking praxis, their engagement with the everyday and their formal experiments. As a sparsely studied filmmakers, the book through meticulously tracing a wide ranging historical transitions (often marked by communal conflicts and the forces of globalization) not only details the ways in which independent filmmakers in India address the questions of postcolonial nation and its modernist projects but also explores their idiosyncratic views of these filmmakers which are characterized by a definitive departure from the logic of commercial films or state-sponsored documentary films. More important in many ways, these documentary filmmakers expose incongruences in national institutions and programs, embrace the voice of the underrepresented, and thus, imagine an alternative vision of the nation. During the last three years of the execution of the project, thirty Indian documentary filmmakers are interviewed in this book. Given the dearth of quality interviews and little theoretical engagement with documentary as a genre, this book would not only fill in the gap in scholarship but also would serve as an authentic guide for interested readers and for documentary filmmakers alike"--

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