The world has shrunk and talented Indian filmmakers who go beyond the Hindi film industry’s commercial concerns are finding finance and appreciation in other countries. Take Anup Singh. A Dar-Es-Salaam-born, Pune Film Institute-trained Indian filmmaker he decided to make a Punjabi fictional feature about a displaced villager fighting to rebuild his life after the trauma of Partition.
Shot entirely in Punjab, the production, featuring Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra and Tilottama Shome in the cast, has received funding from Germany, the Netherlands and France, besides India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). That is. . .