EXCLUSIVE: After Gulabi Gang vs Gulaab Gang, Mehsampur vs Amar Singh Chamkila, why despite Faiza Ahmad Khan’s popular 2008 docu-fiction on Nasir Shaikh’s Malegaon film industry, Reema Kagti’s film was needed? Is Bollywood predatory?
At Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), June 15-21, watch National Award-winning documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain's film 'The Golden Thread', on the dying jute industry and the absence of human welfare in our environmental concerns.
A lawyer and a Gandhian, she was the head of the women‘s wing of the textile labour association in 1971 when she realized that self-employed women who work in Ahmedabad Crafts market had erratic wages and little recourse to law.