Team

Anurag Singh:

Born in Banaras in 1967 to two amazing parents -- who now run wonderful schools in Anuppur district on the border of Chattisgarh & Madhya Pradesh. His school fees were often paid by the socialist leader Jayprakesh Narayan while he distributed handouts during the emergency while his grand father Acharya Ram Murti a noted intellectual  master-minding the Call for Total Revolution in 1975 and later drafted the Education Policy during the V.P. Singh Government. Anurag is a self taught camera person and film-maker, he grew up making audio-visuals against companies like the Birla Paper Mill for the mine & factory workers. He made his 1st significant film on police-repression in the Narmada valley titled Manibeli in 1987 and since has directed and shot documentaries on a wide range of  issue. He has a heart of gold and an eye for the soul.

His camera work is highly appreciated among the communities whom he shoots… not only for his non-intrusive and well-crafted body-language but his understanding n compassion of the marginalized communities. However his real talent is that of a story teller.  He has won a few independent national and international awards. Shooting in the remotest villages of not only India, but as far away as West Africa and Afghanistan.

1st Screening of "One Night In Delhi: The making of a Police State" 15th Aug 2010, at TALK TIBET in McleodGunj, Dharamsala, India

Jharana Jhaveri:

Born in Bombay (currently Mumbai) in 1964,  she turned out to be a rebel in her own right. First a diploma in textile design, then an M Phil in Sociology from University of Pune and an unfinished PhD, she rejected the offer to go for further studies to Sorbonne (in France).Informally learnt under the guidance of Dr. A. R. Desai & Dr. D. N. Dhanagare before she went to rural India for the 1st time at the age of 27. Being closely linked to the film industry since her childhood she was offered roles in Mr. Shyam Banegal and Mr. Subhas Ghai’s Productions and a few student films at the Film & Television Institute of India. She trained in music, art, cinema n theater with the likes of Amjad Ali Khan, Anand Patwardhan & Badal Sircar.  

In 1992 she traveled across rural India to de-school herself of many urban myths with a few skills for social transformation & resistance. Since then she is documenting alternative history. She traveled to Western Europe and the USA with her documentaries in 1997 for the 1st time (before the internet revolutionized parts of Urban India). She has spoken n screened her documentaries at the UN, for the Indian Parliament, Germany’s Green Party….etc. 

However, on a number of occasions she was beaten up by the police, spent nights in jail…(perhaps for her out-spoken support against her own class) Fight monsters like large-dams,  corporate globalized-corruption, nuclearlization & the mind-set that encourages the need for the making of a “police state” n legalizing the politics of greed, lies and violence now for almost three and a half decade. She is considered by her enemies,  a city bred romantic with a soul of a tribal rebel.

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