In his latest film 'The World is Family', which premiered at the on-going Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) here this week, renowned filmmaker Anand Patwardhan builds his family portrait through the lens of India's freedom struggle.
Supported by rare archival footage, family albums and interviews with his family members over the years, Patwardhan captures his family's links with the freedom movement and how they forged deep bonds with Mahatma Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar and other stalwarts of the independence movement.
But the underlying theme of Patwardhan라이브 바카라 most personal documentary is the loss of lofty idealism and communal amity that the stalwarts of the freedom movement symbolised.
'The World is Family' is also his lament for the lost idealism of India라이브 바카라 freedom struggle and forgotten heroes such as the Sindhi leader Allah Baksh Soomro.바카라 웹사이트
"Today라이브 바카라 India is not what Mahatma Gandhi, Ambedkar and Nehru envisioned and fought for," he said. “That history is being wiped today. Today라이브 바카라 India is not what it was. I have been saying this for years,” the filmmaker added.
“But바카라 웹사이트 also I am not saying that what we have lost cannot be recovered. It can be, but you have to make a start,” he said.
Patwardhan also became the second Indian after 'Baahubali' director S.S. Rajamouli last year to speak at the Visionaries segment of the TIFF on Tuesday,바카라 웹사이트
The TIFF introduction to his film says: “For decades, Anand Patwardhan has been a singular figure of independent documentary in India, giving inspiration to a flourishing of new directors today,”바카라 웹사이트
'The World is Family' is the fourth film of the renowned Indian filmmaker to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival.바카라 웹사이트
