Using dance as a tool for social commentary. Screened at Hague.

Directed by Mallika Sarabhai and Yadavan Chandran | 2016
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra

Mallika Sarabhai is the director of Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, a centre for the arts with a focus on the use of arts for social change. She is one of India’s best known Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancers. She founded Darpana Communications in 2001 which has since produced numerous television programmes and films.

A graduate of Loyola College, Chennai, Yadavan Chandran has been involved with films and television since his childhood. Since 2002, he has been running Darpana Communications, a production house creating television programming and videos for empowerment and social change.

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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_M....

PSBT was a notforprofit 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, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/ci..., https://psbt.org/wpcontent/uploads/2..., https://www.thehindu.com/features/cin..., https://psbt.org/wpcontent/uploads/2...)

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: Yadavan Chandran, Mallika Sarabhai
Cinematographer and Editor: Yadavan Chandran
Narrator: Tom Alter

Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs
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Last updated: July 2020