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    Open frame. Democracy exercise one
    Democracy exercise one Catalog Record Only
    The film asserts that a modern democracy is fundamentally dependent on the concept of equality and attempts to answer the question whether our much flaunted diversity is actually a challenge to the basic objective of our freedom movement: the establishment of an egalitarian society.
    • Contributor: Prasar Bharti Corporation (India) - Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India) - Shah, Jagan - Singh, Reshma P. - Doordarshan (Television Station : New Delhi, India) - LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2004
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    Rang de basanti : a generation awakens
    Generation awakens Catalog Record Only
    Rang de basanti is a story about the youth of India today. Arriving in India, a UK graduate enlists a gang of college students to participate in a documentary about India's freedom fighters. Initially, these students scoff at the ideals and people of the past, but Sue wishes to showcase to the world the efforts of these young revolutionaries and the enormity of their...
    • Contributor: Screwvala, Ronnie - Rahman, A. R. - Mehra, Rakeysh Omprakash - Utv Motion Pictures (India) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2006
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    Prem kahani Catalog Record Only Story of a freedom fighter, a principled, upright police office and a pathan truck driver, who would rather give up his life than go back on his word. Along with them is Kamini, a woman with a difficult choice to make. The absorbing love stoty, with thrills is set in the background of India's struggle for freedom from British rule.
    • Contributor: Khosla, Raj - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Khosla, Lekhraj - Shemaroo Entertainment (Firm) - Laxmikant Pyarelal (Musical Group)
    • Date: 2004
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    Bhārata kī bahū, mān. Śrīmatī Soniyā Gan̐dhī
    Bhārata kī bahū, mānanīya Śrīmatī Soniyā Gan̐dhī | Soniyā Gan̐dhī Catalog Record Only
    On the political campaign of Indian National Congress (I) for Indian parliamentary elections of Lok Sabha in 2004.
    • Contributor: Indian National Congress (I). Madhya Pradeśa Kāṅgresa Kameṭi - Yādava, Subhāsha - LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2004
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    Papa 2 : enforced disappearances in Kashmir Catalog Record Only A documentary by Gopal Menon, a human rights activist, on PAPA 2 which was a notorious interrogation centre run by the Indian Armed Forces in Kashmir till 1996. Officially, over 2000 - unofficially, over 8000 - people have disappeared from the Kashmir Valley over the past 15 years. Most of these are enforced disappearances. The film, "PAPA 2", documents the struggle of the mothers...
    • Contributor: Menon, Gopal - Srinivas, M. K. - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2004
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    Legacy of Tana Bhaghat
    Vr̥tta nāṭya, Ṭānā Pantha pravartaka Jatarā Tānā Bhagata aura unakī virāsata Catalog Record Only
    A biographical documentary on the life and work of Tana Bhagata, 1888-1918, from Chottanagpur in modern Jharkhand, India, who was a freedom fighter who rose against British tax laws, a social reformer who fought against superstition and preached non-violence long before Ghandi. He used the mantra "Tana Panthis" which hinged on the philosophy of "God, call us towards you."
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Kishore, Saurabh - Priyadarshni (Firm) - Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
    • Date: 200?
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    Ayodhya to Varanasi : prayers for peace Catalog Record Only Documentary examining the claims of the Ram Temple and Babari Masjid dispute in Faizabad, India; Throughtout the message comes out strongly in favour of communal harmony and development to the divisive ideologies propagated by the Hindutva.
    • Contributor: Josson, Suma - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2005
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    Ayodhya gatha Catalog Record Only Film attemptes to seek new ways of discussing the real costs of politics of hate through the tales of people of Ayodhya seeking the freedom to live in normalcy going beyond the contemporary secularist rhetoric.
    • Contributor: Subramanian, Vani - Prasar Bharti Corporation (India) - Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2007
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    Open frame. One in a million
    One in a million Catalog Record Only
    Film on the story of Maya Sorte, a backward caste women who is affecting the politics of Vadwal village in Maharashtra after much struggle challenging hierarchies within the structure of the village and raises questions about women and their place in public life and about larger process of change.
    • Contributor: Prasar Bharti Corporation (India) - Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India) - Mohan, Reena - LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2007
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    Uttara Pradeśa, utpiṛita pradeśa Catalog Record Only Political campaigns of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, India.
    • Contributor: Mohana, R̥shi - LC Gift Collection (Library of Congress) - Bharatiya Janata Party - Miśra, Manoja
    • Date: 2006
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    Gandhi, my father Catalog Record Only The world knows about Mahatma Gandhi's role in the Indian freedom movement and as a social reformer. But there are large gaps in our knowledge of Gandhi as a person and a family man, particularly the tumultuous relationship with Harilal, his eldest son. Set against one of politically most turbulent times in India, the film tells an intensely personal story of a father struggling...
    • Contributor: Kanojia, Piyush - Khan, Feroz - Anil Kapoor Film Company - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Eros International (Firm)
    • Date: 2007
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    Gandhi
    Richard Attenborough's Gandhi Catalog Record Only
    Feature film on Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948 stressing his philosophy of nonviolence as a technique for political change, from his activities in Southern Africa in the Indian Congress Party (1893) through his return to India (1915), his role in the Indian National Congress Party, and his various campaigns and struggles for Indian independence. Ends with his death by assassination in 1948, just a few months...
    • Contributor: Goldcrest Films International - Shankar, Ravi - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Attenborough, Richard - International Film Investors (Firm) - National Film Development Corporation of India - Indo-British Films, Ltd - Briley, John
    • Date: 2006
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    The legend of Bhagat Singh
    Di lijaṇḍa ôpha Bhagata Siṃha Catalog Record Only
    Bhagat was born in British India in 1908. As a child he witnessed numerous atrocities committed on fellow Indians by their British rulers, who came to trade under the guise of the East India Company, but ended up controlling most of the nation, and permitting tyrants such as General Dyer to massacre thousands of innocent men, women and children in Jallianwala Baug. As a...
    • Contributor: Taurani, Kumar S. (Kumar Sadhuram) - Rahman, A. R. - Rajabali, Anjum - Singh, Sushant - Taurani, Ramesh S. (Ramesh Sadhuram) - Santoshi, Raj Kumar - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Tips Films - Gold Entertainment (Firm) - Devgan, Ajay - Mishra, Akhilendra
    • Date: 2004
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    Boma : mahāśunya
    Bom : Catalog Record Only
    Hidden in the mountains of the Himalayas, Malana was like a lost world. A reticent community fostering a primitive existence in harmony with nature and harbouring their own unique model of democracy of consensus, where they select instead of electing. They have also been producing some of the best quality hashish. A real life story of transition; an ancient civilization being invaded and obliterated...
    • Contributor: Animagineer (Firm) - Datta, Amlan - Datta, Anirban
    • Date: 2011
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    Long hair, short ideas : interview, the revolutionary's wife Catalog Record Only The film attempts to create a conversation between the pressures of excavating a political moment and the elasticity of the documentary form. The film is constructed around Vidrohi's (the revolutionary poet) wife. Her relationship to the radical movement is traced via the turbulent political history of India in the 1970s and her intimate experiences around domesticity, sexuality and labour.
    • Contributor: Dutta, Debjani - Prasar Bharti Corporation (India) - Public Service Broadcasting Trust (New Delhi, India) - Doordarshan (Television Station : New Delhi, India) - Paul, Pallavi
    • Date: 2014
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    The die is caste Catalog Record Only Appraisal of three decades of the Naxalite movement in the state of Bihar. Against the backdrop of parliamentary and legislative assembly elections in Bihar, between 1999-2001, the film portrays the change over 30 years in social and political status of the Dalits.
    • Contributor: Kamath, Ranjan - RKO Moving Media
    • Date: 2004
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    Bose, the forgotten hero
    Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the forgotten hero Catalog Record Only
    The film is about the last five years of the Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose's life, also includes his life's story in flashback sequences.
    • Contributor: Sahara One Motion Pictures (Firm) - Tiwari, Atul - Zaidi, Shama - Benegal, Shyam - Rudraa Home Video (Mumbai, India) - Kothari, Rajan
    • Date: 2011
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    Raajneeti Catalog Record Only Belonging to a prominent Uttar Pradesh-family of ruthless politicians, Samar Pratap is about to return to his Irish-American girlfriend, Sarah, in the U.S. and obtain a PhD, but cancels his trip when his father, Chandra, is shot dead. He decides to stay put and avenge this slaying but ends up dealing with aspiring politician, Indu Sakseria, who wants to wed him; his brother, Prithviraj,...
    • Contributor: Utv (Firm) - Jha, Prakash - Rajabali, Anjum
    • Date: 2010
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    Massey sahib Catalog Record Only In a small, tribal district town in Central India in 1929, Francis Massey is the 'English type babu' at the Deputy Commissioner's office. Massey believes that because he is christian and can speak English, he is a cut above other Indians and not very different from the white sahibs he serves. For a man of lowly birth, Massey has risen to a dizzying height....
    • Contributor: Krishen, Pradip - National Film Development Corporation of India - Bhatia, Vanraj
    • Date: 1986
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    At the crossroads Catalog Record Only The Nehruvian era made ordinary people - mostly adivasis and dalits - lose their lands, forests and streams in the name of 'national development'. That development never reached them. Not only they remained as deprived of basic health care and education as ever, but also of even safe drinking water though surrounded by reservoirs and dams. While this state injustice continued unabated, the post-liberalization...
    • Contributor: Sarangi, Deba Ranjan - Pedestrian Pictures (Bangalore, India)
    • Date: 2013
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    Nasīma = Naseem = Nasīm
    Naseem | Nasīm Catalog Record Only
    Naseem means the morning breeze. It's the name of a young girl who lives with her family in Bombay. The year is 1992. This was a year when India, as a nation, went through traumatic times. A mosque was demolished and the riots, slaughter and savagery that followed have left wounds that will take years to heal. Naseem is the private story of a...
    • Contributor: National Film Development Corporation of India - Bhatia, Vanraj - Mirza, Saeed Akhtar
    • Date: 2012
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    Lok Dal election campaign. Catalog Record Only Election campaign of the Lok Dal, Indian political party, for the 1989 Lok Sabha elections.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1989
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    BJP election campaign. Catalog Record Only Election campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian political party, for the 1989 Lok Sabha elections.
    • Contributor: LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1989
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    Flop show Catalog Record Only Reproduction of a satirical comedy, television serial on the contemporary sociopolitical scene in India.
    • Contributor: Bhatti, Jaspal - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1991
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    Bombay, a myth shattered Catalog Record Only On the January 1993 riots in Bombay; includes interviews wih the minority class people affected by these riots.
    • Contributor: Setawad, Teesta - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1991