ARE YOU WITH ME? (2007)
Language : English Duration : 38 minutes Format : HDV
Produced for DFID - PMO, India and Internews Europe 

The film gives an insight into the HIV & AIDS scenario in the state of Manipur in northeast India. It travels back into time into the beginnings of injecting drug use and the subsequent spread of the HIV virus. Following into present times, when awareness is much higher but the task to combat drug use, HIV & AIDS and the status of widows is formidable. In this context, the film puts a pioneering organization, the Manipur Network of Positive People, and its efforts in the community across the entire state into focus. The film is centred around people who tell the story of this difficult world in their own words.

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UNDER PRODUCTION: RHETORIC & REALITY 2 (Working Title) 2006
Language : English & Hindi Duration : 38 minutes Format :Beta-SP & HDV
Produced for:

The film takes a pioneering example of self-reliance for 500 villages in central India as a symbolic centre-point. From this successful ISO certified experiment, the film views 60 years of India’s independence, the economic models it has followed and the impact it has had on society, which is now visible as a fabricated and sharply divided one.

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"OF RHETORIC AND REALITY" (2003)
Language : English Duration : 29 minutes Format : Betacam SP
Produced for Public Service Broadcasting Trust and
National Network, Doordarshan, India

For 86-year old Nanaji Deshmukh, the grotesque urban-rural divide in India bespeaks a lack of humanism. The film looks at some aspects of his campaign for rural self-reliance, which is poised for ISO certification.

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"OUR HAVENS" (2002)
Language : English Duration : 29 minutes Format : Betacam SP
Produced for Public Service Broadcasting Trust and
National Network, Doordarshan, India

The film deals with the structures of families in upper middle class metropolitan India. Three family units and a sociologist form the core of the film, through whom we can glimpse certain aspects of what makes families carry on in spite of the changing circumstances of modern life.

"THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS OF DIBANG" (2000)
Language: German Duration: 45 minutes
Format: Betacam SP
An NDR (Germany) production by Dr. Wolfgang Wegner in collaboration with SPOTFILMS

The film deals with a largely unknown tribe, the Idu Mishmis, who live in Arunachal Pradesh touching the borders of Bhutan, Tibet and Myannamar. The tribe has mythological connections dating back to the second-third century B.C. But there is no documented historical evidence about them till the 16th century. Hair cut in a straight line across the crown is the identity of this tribe, which they link to an ancient Indian myth as well.

"PARIVARTAN" : CHANGE (2001)
Language : Hindi Duration : 1 Minutes Format : Betacam SP
Produced for National Literacy Mission, Department of Adult Education, Government of India

A series of six spots designed as a campaign for the Literacy Mission. Each is based on the story of a real-life neo-literate in five states of northern India and the Union Territory of Delhi.

"JUNGLE DREAMS" (1997)
Language : German Duration : 29 minutes Format : Betacam SP
A ZDF (Germany) production by Meinolf Fritzen in collaboration with SPOTFILMS

A documentary based on Chendru, a Bastar muria tribal who had acted in a Swedish film forty years ago. The present film studies the impact of the Swedish film on this simple tribal boy viz-a-viz his relationship with kinsmen and the changes in his life forty years later.

"THE KISS OF THE ELEPHANT GOD" (1996)
Language : German Duration : 29 minutes Format : Betacam SP
A ZDF (Germany) production by Meinolf Fritzen in collaboration with SPOTFILMS

A film which is part of a series on socio-religious attitudes towards animals in different religions. The film explores the humane and cosmic attitudes to animals in India.

"PRERNA KE PRAHARI": The Twilight Years (1996)
Language : Hindi Duration : 29 minutes - 6 films Format : Betacam SP
Produced for National Network, Doordarshan, India

A series of 6 profiles of elderly people above 75 years, who have remained active and useful to society. The aim was to motivate elder citizens to remain positive and contribute fruitfully to society to be able to cope with old age.

AYURVEDA: The Science of Life (1995)
Language : German Duration : 29 minutes Format : Betacam SP
Produced for Transtel, Germany

The relevance of the Ayurvedic system of medicine is introduced within the backdrop of increasing worlwide interest in indigenous medicine. The accessibility, simplicity and holistic aspect of Ayurveda is expressed through experts, patients and practising Ayurvedic doctors.

THE BISHNOIS (1991)
Language : German Duration : 29 minutes Format : Betacam SP
Produced for ZDF (Meinolf Fritzen), Germany

The Bishnois of Rajasthan in western India are one of the oldest ecologically-aware, practising environmentalists in India. Four of their 29 religious tenets are related to environmental beliefs.

THE SILENT ONE; THE INVISIBLE ONE (1991)
Language : English Duration : 29 minutes - 2 films Format : U-Matic
Produced for National Network, Doordarshan, India


An overview of the urban-slum girl child and the tribal girl child. The focus is on girls in the age-group of 8 - 12 years, the youngest victims of gender bias. The two programmes profile a girl child and her immediate group and community on whom she is totally dependent for her status.

NATION HONOURS (1989-1990)
Language : Hindi Duration : 15 minutes - 10 parts Format : U-Matic
Produced for National Network, Doordarshan, India

This series of ten programmes presents profiles of traditional mastercraftsmen in India: a potter, a carpet-weaver, a brass-inlay craftsman, an ivory-carver, a gold-emboss craftsman, a leather puppeteer, a bronze sculptor, a glass painter, a papier mache & wood sculptor and a weaver. The portraits reveal the deteriorating status of crafts and craftsmen in India, leading to frustration and a break in long-cherished traditions.

END OF THE TRAIL (1988)
Language : English Duration : 30 minutes Format : U-Matic
Produced for the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, National Network, Doordarshan, India

The programme is about Himalayan shepherds who follow the cycle of transhumance. The family of this particular shepherd, (like others) has followed the same trail for many generations upto 14,000 ft. every summer. These ecologically-aware pastoralists now face grazing problems in winter due to increased cultivation and new forest- protection policies. Young shepherds are faced with difficult choices between traditional practices and the viability of survival.

THE TENTH MAN (1984) *
Language : English Duration : 70 minutes Format : 35mm Film
Directed for State Government of Gujarat, India

The film is an overview of tribes in the state of Gujarat in Western India. By the beginning of the 80s, these tribal communities were coming under the influence of outside groups. The film was meant to record tribal social customs and their economic status at a point when changes were taking place. (Every 10th man in Gujarat is a tribal.)

"BEWAR": SHIFTING CULTIVATION (1982) *
Language : Hindi Duration : 30 minutes Format : 16mm Eastman
Film Produced for Delhi Television, Doordarshan, India

The film deals with the problems tribals face when made to change over to settled agriculture. Shifting cultivation, a common practice among the tribals of Central India, was maintained with traditional wisdom. Increased population and external pressures have convoluted the sensibility of shifting cultivation practices.