The Chronicler

After wrapping up production of the much-awaited Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol-starrer Aisha,director Rajshree Ojha is willing to forgo a break to realise one of her dream projects.

After wrapping up production of the much-awaited Sonam Kapoor and Abhay Deol-starrer Aisha,director Rajshree Ojha is willing to forgo a break to realise one of her dream projects. The 31-year-old is concentrating on making a documentary,which she says is her own Midnights Children.

Untitled till now,the documentary will chronicle the period in India between the Independence and the Emergency. The seeds of modern India that we live in today were probably sown by people who were born during this period,and the documentary pays homage to them.

Ojha adds that her chief aim is to explore the 1960s. Indians who spent their youth in that phase were much more progressive than we are today. We had Satyajit Ray,Ritwik Ghatak and Hrishikesh Mukherjee in films,Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Allah Rakha Khan in music and several doyens in art and literature, she says. This phase,when huge movements were taking place across the world,is well documented internationally,but unfortunately,we have little documentation about India. My work is an attempt to fill this vaccum. The director is speaking to stalwarts across fields for her filmfrom Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia to industrialists Adi Godrej and Ratan Tata,even admen Prahlad Kakkar and Alyque Padamsee.

She feels that the political milieu that led to the Emergency also put a stop to this progressive movement in India. Something changed or died,we had the worst phase in terms of art and culture,and I wish to find out what led to this.

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