Anand Patwardhan

Anand Patwardhan

Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 6 (Director), 3 (Writer)

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    War and Peace
    The film covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998, as well as the nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests. (Wikipedia)
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    Narmada Diary
    A Narmada Diary introduces the Narmada Bachao Andolan (the Save the Narmada Movement), which has spearheaded the agitation against the Sardar Sarovar Dam. As government resettlement programs prove inadequate, the Narmada Bachao Andolan has emerged as one of the most dynamic struggles in India today. With non-violent protests and a determination to drown rather than to leave their homes and land, the people of the Narmada valley have become symbols of a global struggle against unjust development. (South and South-East Asia Documentary Film Programme)
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    Ram Ke Naam
    The controversy around the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya prior to its demolition in 1992. It focuses on the campaign waged by the Hindu-nationalist Vishva Hindu Parishad to remove the mosque and build a temple in its place, as well as the communal violence that it triggered. (en.wikipedia.org)
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    Jai Bhim Comrade
    Historically, Hindu society has been perpetuated with casteism. At the lowest end of the caste hierarchy, lies Dalits or Untouchables. This film documents a shooting instructed by an upper caste Police Inspector in a peaceful march of Dalit residents in Ramabai colony in Mumbai. Patwardhan shows how the malpractice of casteism has always been present in Hindutva ideology and how politics, money, power have put Dalits into a precarious social position.
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    Reason
    A detailed chronicling of injustices in India told in eight parts. (imdb)
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    A Time to Rise
    The story of the birth of the Canadian Farmworkers' Union in 1980, drawing upon the 10,000 Indians who constitute the majority of farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. Most of the fields have children, despite denials on film that children are employed. (BFI)
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