Movies

Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He...

A music student listens to stories and legends about the birth and evolution of the Khayal form of classical Indian singing. These stories are...

Feature documentary, completed but unreleased.

Taran lives with her father in a small town on the cusp of industrialization. Taran has a strained relationship with her father, who is increasingly...

Rahul, the son-in-law of an old industrialist and one of the heirs to his fortune, clashes with Dinesh, the industrialist’s nephew who is...

Short film made at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute.

Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence,...

Short film shot on 16mm Kodachrome film, made in collaboration with psychoanalyst Udayan Patel.

Programme on film appreciation made for Bombay TV.

Educational documentary filmed in b/w on 16mm.

The story centers around a small town entrepreneur named Maniram who makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food. His...

Bamboo Flute is Kumar Shahani’s cinematic tribute to the flute and its importance to Indian civilisation.

An experiment and a homage, Bhavantarana is a spiritually intoxicating documentary about classical Odissi dance maestro Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra.

In modern society, communication between individuals is becoming more and more difficult. Two persons may be in the same physical environment, yet it...

Documentary filmed in b/w on 35mm made for Films Division, India.

Documentary filmed in Technicolor on 35mm for Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL).

Tackling the theme of identity from the perspective of Asian and Afro-Caribbean actors, the film emerged from an acting workshop exploring the...

Documentary film based on the artist Akbar Padamsee.

Documentary on 35mm (censored but not released) made for Films Division, India.

Kumar Shahani's incomplete film on psychoanalyst Wilfred R. Bion.