Around India with a Movie Camera (2019)
• January 18th, 2019 • 1h 12min
Documentary
Overview
Award-winning filmmaker Sandhya Suri (I for India) skilfully weaves together archive footage to create an emotionally resonant story about life across India from 1899 to 1947. Drawn exclusively from the BFI National Archive, Around India features some of the earliest surviving film from India as well as gorgeous travelogues, intimate home movies and newsreels from British, French and Indian filmmakers. Taking in Maharajas and Viceroys, fakirs and farmhands and personalities such as Sabu and Gandhi, the film explores not only the people and places of over 70 years ago, but asks us to engage with broader themes of a shared history, shifting perspectives in the lead up to Indian independence and the ghosts of the past. Around India boasts a superb new score that fuses western and Indian music from composer and sarod player Soumik Datta.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Golden Thread
Released on: 2022-11-09
Documentary, Drama
In the heyday of the jute industry, millions of people in Bengal made their living doing this labori...
This Exists - A Film about Sri Prem Baba
Released on: 2015-11-09
Documentary
The story of Sri Prem Baba, spiritual master and humanitarian leader with followers around the world...
Jewelry Of India
Released on:
Documentary, History
Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...
The Sufi and the Scientist
Released on: 2006-04-09
Documentary
The Sufi and the Scientist is the collective story of Sufi healer Sayyid Arif Hussain, the medieval ...
Aravani Girl
Released on: 2009-09-14
Documentary
Sixteen year olds Palani and Karthik want to become "ladyboys." They're bullied in school and beaten...
Gardens of the Orient
Released on: 1936-01-01
Documentary
This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited work...
Fascinating India
Released on: 2014-05-15
Documentary
"Fascinating India" spreads an impressive panorama of India’s historical and contemporary world. The...
Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta
Released on: 1913-01-01
Documentary
Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.
District Officer
Released on: 1945-06-27
Documentary
The work of a district officer in the province of Bengal.
India Cabaret
Released on: 1985-01-02
Documentary
A documentary exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told ...
In Rural Maharashtra
Released on: 1945-01-01
Documentary
Happy farmers, a wedding and some giant cauliflowers...
Ganges
Released on: 2007-08-03
Documentary, TV Movie
A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile B...
Kolkata with Sue Perkins
Released on: 2015-09-02
Documentary
Sue Perkins immerses herself in the complex life of Kolkata and sees how it is reinventing itself as...
By the River
Released on: 2019-10-20
Documentary
Stretching along the river Ganges rests Varanasi, the holiest of India’s seven sacred cities, and a ...
India: Kingdom of the Tiger
Released on: 2002-06-14
Documentary
Journey across India, a breath taking land shaped by a myriad of cultures, customs and traditions. C...
A Rifle and a Bag
Released on: 2020-01-27
Documentary
Somi is pregnant with her second child. A girl, she hopes. Together with her husband she prepares fo...
An immersion into the Divine Feminine
Released on: 2017-08-15
Documentary
By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divi...
Farewell, My Indian Soldier
Released on: 2016-06-01
Documentary, History
A young woman researches the hidden story of Indian soldiers who came to fight in France and Belgium...