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Even as the Capital counts down to the 2010 Commonwealth Games,filmmaker Yasmin Kidwai wants us to look further. At the little-known Commonwealth Youth Games that are held as a run-up to the main event. In India ,the youth games were held in Pune last year and I was there with my camera, she says. The film,titled Get Set Go,was screened at the Alliance Francaise on Saturday.
The film was largely unplanned. I was in Pune to promote Chukker,my film on polo,when I found out about the Youth Games. Seventy-one countries were participating,and whats better is that India led the medals tally, says Kidwai.
Her other work Seher hit the small screen across India on DD Urdu this month. These are profiles of ordinary Muslim women who are achievers in their respective fields. For instance,Alisha Abdullah from Chennai is Indias only female bike racer. In spite of women such as Abdullah,Muslim girls were typecast as uneducated,burkha-clad and oppressed, says Kidwai who began shooting for Seher with her brother Fazal last year.
Her documentary writer Shahla Raza sourced out as many as 52 women. Only some of these women have been profiled as yet,and Kidwai wants to shoot more editions of Seher to finish the list. But,first she wants to complete two other films. One is titled Indian by Choice ,about people from around the world who are not Indian but have made this country their home. The other one is about 25 years since the Bhopal gas tragedy, she says.
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