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Inside a cupboard in room S18
of a hostel in the FTII
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a box was found
with several assorted items
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newspaper cuttings, dried flowers
and memory cards.
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Amongst them were letters written
by a student of the film school
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only named by the initial 'L'.
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My love,
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How are you?
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I am thinking of you...
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More and more it seems,
as the days stretch on.
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I'm getting by...
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still not quite able
to get my head around things...
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Yesterday Mukul came to the room
to have tea.
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He told me these days he's been having
a strange, recurring dream.
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He narrated it to me
and I also found it strange.
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And listening to him, all I could
think of was of our situation.
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I suppose it is always on my mind...
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I went to the Dean's office
this morning.
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He asked me where you were,
and when you would be back.
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I didn't know what to tell him.
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How could I tell him
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that your parents locked you in a room
and won't let you out...
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because you expressed
your desire to marry me?
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How could I tell him...
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that even if you escaped
and came back,
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they would find us
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and who knows what they would do?
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I just told him you were dealing
with a family problem...
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That's the truth, I guess.
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Anyway, there is a party tonight.
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I don't feel like going,
but maybe I will...
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Just to take these thoughts
out of my mind.
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I'm thinking of you...
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What else can I say...?
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Yours, L
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Yesterday Mukul came to the room
to have tea.
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He told me these days he's been having
a strange, recurring dream.
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It was a moonlit night...
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I was in love with a girl...
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She was petite, so delicate.
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We had decided to meet
in the field behind her house,
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in the fields
that would hide our love...
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I was waiting for my beloved...
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waiting to touch her gentle lips
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take her in my arms,
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kiss her.
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I saw a figure crouching in the bushes.
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Suddenly...
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it started to move towards me...
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and I realised that it was her father!
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Her father and his men chased me
through the forest...
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I saw a river, I recognised it.
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If I jumped into it...
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I wouldn't remember my past...
I would know nothing.
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What choice did I have?
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If they caught me...
I would be dead.
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I have this dream often..
More often, these days...
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Sunday morning,
the campus is still asleep.
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There are only the sounds
of birds and faithful dogs.
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Here, life goes on.
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Tudu!
What's cooking in the Mess?
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I really hope it's not pumpkin.
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- Pumpkin.
- Dammit!
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I have to still take a bath!
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They will run out of beer!
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We are having a party!
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My love,
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I am sorry I have not written
in so many days.
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I have been trying
to keep myself busy.
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That is the only way
I can keep my mind off of things.
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I am editing Himu's film.
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And I have to admit,
it has not been easy.
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He watches me edit
with such intensity,
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as if there is some pattern
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that only I can see...
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But it is not true.
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It is a complicated film and I think
neither of us fully understand it.
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Did I tell you what it's about?
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It is about a girl.
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She is having
an existential crisis perhaps.
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I know you'd say, she is like me.
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- Roll camera!
- Rolling.
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Shot 7, take 1.
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Shot 4, take 2!
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Roll camera!
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Today I have a day off
after many days.
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And again I find myself thinking of you.
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I miss you.
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I felt your touch...
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as if you were next to me...
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It is getting harder to live on campus.
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Since you left,
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the administration has been
coming at us with more vengeance.
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They're passing all kinds of rules
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which have nothing to do
with students or cinema.
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I am ashamed to admit it...
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but sometimes I think that they are
punishing us for going on strike.
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Like if we hadn't gone on strike,
would things be better now?
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But at the time,
what other choice did we have?
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In the monsoon of 2015,
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the students
of the state funded film school,
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the Film and Television
Institute of India,
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called for a strike against appointment
of their new chairman,
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Mr. Gajendra Chauhan.
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Mr. Chauhan had been appointed
by the newly formed government in India,
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headed by the BJP.
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He is an actor
whose most popular role
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was to play a Hindu
mythological character on a soap-opera
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in the 1980s.
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The reason for the agitation
was that the students claimed
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that Mr. Chauhan had been appointed
to run the film school
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because of his affiliation to the BJP
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and his support
for the Hindu nationalist organisation
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the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,
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the RSS.
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Students further claimed
that it was not just FTII
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but the government had appointed
many RSS sympathisers
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to various public funded institutes.
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All the agents of Modi...
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Get out of here!
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Eisenstein, Pudovkin!
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We shall fight! We shall win!
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Several students, academics and artists
supported the strike,
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and soon news channels
featured it on prime time news.
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Our protest is not just
against these few appointees.
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Our opposition is towards
all these political appointments
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that this government is making
in all Public Institutes
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since the past one year
they have come into power.
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All these people are associated
with a certain ideology.
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If anyone questions their ideology,
they are immediately shut down.
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If someone is against their views,
they are beaten!
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If anyone makes a film
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that doesn't suit their ideology,
it is banned.
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Those protesting against the appointment
of Mr. Gajendra Chauhan are anti Hindu.
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Gajendra Chauhan has acted
in over 150 films and 600 TV shows.
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Those people who are questioning
the appointment
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must be joking or must be mentally ill.
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It is quite clear
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that all they want is to promote
their anti-Hindu agenda.
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And that's their goal!
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As the weeks turned to months,
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the students showed no sign
of backing down.
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The Government had to take notice.
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First, the students were
threatened with rustication.
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When they did not stop,
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five students were arrested
in a midnight siege.
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If you are going to arrest students
in the middle of the night,
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there should be some legal basis!
At least show us an arrest warrant!
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What's going on?
Is this now a police state?
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Soon the machinery in place
were used to change the narrative.
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Students were called
"anti-national" and "anti-Hindu".
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Subsequently, the students
lost the public sympathy
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and were viewed as freeloaders
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living off tax-payer funded subsidies.
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In a desperate attempt,
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several students went on
a hunger strike, and were hospitalised.
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Unable to hold on,
the strike was finally called off
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after 139 days.
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Do you remember
that night during the strike?
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Someone had set up projectors
under the trees.
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You were sitting next to me.
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I leaned my head on your shoulder
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in the pale projector light...
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I don't know how it happened...
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but soon we were kissing.
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I miss you.
Yours, L.
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It must be raining outside.
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There was this question also,
like during the strike,
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if the entire country has supported us
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what if someone else
is attacked tomorrow?
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If something happens
in a different institute,
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is it our responsibility
to stand with them?
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It's not just a moral obligation I feel,
it is also because the current scenario
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if you guys think that if you are silent
and if we listen to whatever they say,
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your life will be better,
absolutely it's a lie!
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It is not going to be that.
It actually will get worse.
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My dear,
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Last night
the Student Union elections began.
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Because of the yellow tarpaulin
spread on the floor,
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the whole court was ablaze
with yellow light!
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Even the leaves on the trees
looked golden.
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Anunay, with his gentle voice
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spoke about preserving the past.
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And Ranjit spoke about
safeguarding the future.
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OUR OLD CAR NEEDS A NEW COAT OF PAINT
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LET'S COME TOGETHER TO PAINT IT!
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Why did we show the film?
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Why are these people coming
and talking to us?
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Why is this discussion happening?
It is all happening so that we feed into
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the clarity of vision
that is needed to run this place.
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Run this place
from the student community's side,
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from the administration's side.
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What is the need for this place
to exist in today's times?
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If in the course
of these three-four or five days,
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if we can organically understand
what is this vision that is emerging
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not from the burden of history,
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not from a legacy
that is being handed to us
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and forced upon us,
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but, by truly observing,
what is the status today?
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Why do we need a film school
like this in our times?
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Such a heavily subsidised film school
in today's times?
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What are our privileges here?
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How many of us could have even
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dreamt of making films
if this place did not exist?
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Did I tell you I visited Nachi
in his village in Polachi?
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We rode around
on his father's motorcycle.
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People passed us glances
as we went by...
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it was funny...
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But Nachi and I were not always friends.
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The first time we met,
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I found him too excited,
too articulate.
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Maybe because we are so different
from one another,
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we found in each other
a compassionate friendship.
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Out on the basketball court,
I saw all our friends
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who have now become so dear to me.
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Neel, Shaz, Prabhati...
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And amongst them,
were new faces too...
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who were listening so sincerely
to everything we were saying.
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Those faces were of the new students.
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I imagined that in three years
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they too might have
the same deep love for one another.
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Perhaps,
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they might lean
on each other's shoulders
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and close their eyes
with the tiredness of being alive.
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Perhaps, they might think
of each other as lovers,
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as brothers, as parents
or as teachers.
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I saw Himu coming to us from afar.
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A light shone in his hands,
a small candle,
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placed on a cake.
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The golden light sparkled
in his shy eyes.
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"Whose birthday is it?"
somebody asked.
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"Not any of ours"
he replied coyly...
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"This cake is for Madhubala's birthday."
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Hearing this, we were all overjoyed
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and we sang a song
from the late actress' movie:
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"When one has loved,
what is there to fear"
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and rejoiced for Madhubala,
for cinema and for love!
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Because we knew,
after all, they are one and the same!
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On the margins of her letters
L often makes drawings.
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Doodles, shapes and forms
that are unfamiliar
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and quite often appear to be hands.
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I believe that the students are
at the frontline of the fight
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against this dictatorial government.
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I went to the Hyderabad
Central University (HCU).
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Over there, women students were
threatened with rape by the police.
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The police beat them
and threatened them with rape.
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Where there were
Bahujan and Dalit students,
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they were called "untouchables".
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And where there were Muslim students,
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they had the usual word
for them: "terrorists".
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My dear,
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Do you still keep cuttings
from newspapers like you used to?
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When I asked you
why you were doing it,
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you said it was because
you didn't want to forget.
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Perhaps because I am an editor,
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I continued the timeline,
where you left it off.
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Your notes from the past
meet mine from the present.
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You were right.
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Our memory cannot keep up
with these times, it seems.
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Trump's shocking victory
was quickly forgotten
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when the murder
of journalist Gauri Lankesh took place.
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We had hardly any time to process this,
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before the lynching
of Pehlu Khan happened.
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The image of his helpless face pleading
to an angry mob to allow him to live.
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00:36:48,113 --> 00:36:53,313
And then the image of flogging
of the young Dalit men in Una.
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It was quickly replaced
by the image of a Muslim girl,
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who was gang raped and murdered.
267
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:12,646
And each image vanished as quickly
and horrifically as it had appeared.
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A fleeting memory of violence.
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But one clipping never leaves me
no matter what I do.
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It is from January 2016.
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The day Rohith Vemula took his own life.
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In his death,
Rohith Vemula has emerged as a symbol
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of protest against injustice
and indignity.
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The 26 year old PhD student
killed himself on Sunday
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inside the campus
of the Hyderabad Central University.
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Mr. Vemula was a member
of the Ambedkar Students' Association,
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which fights for the rights of Dalits,
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formerly known as "untouchables".
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Rohith and five other students
allegedly faced discrimination
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from the "upper" caste
administration at HCU
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when he got into an altercation
with a leader of the student-wing
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of the ruling party, the ABVP.
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His death sparked protests
on campuses worldwide last week
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and prompted a national debate
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about the discrimination
of Dalit students and academics
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at Indian universities.
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The government has launched
a judicial probe into the death
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and Prime Minister Modi has said
that "Mother India has lost her son".
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Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
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00:39:14,980 --> 00:39:20,313
he said that "India has lost her son".
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We have another question
to be put before Mr. Modi.
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If India has lost her son...
293
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the same son was branded
as anti-national!
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The same son was branded
as casteist
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because he was first fighting
against casteism!
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The same son was branded
as an "extremist"
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by your own cabinet minister
who is sitting alongside of you
298
00:39:48,980 --> 00:39:50,980
Union Minister
for Labour and Employment,
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Mr. Bandaru Dattatreya.
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And you think about it...
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As of July,
five students were suspended.
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Their research fellowship is stopped!
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After 4th January,
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they are banned from using the library,
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00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:13,446
they are thrown out
of their hostel rooms
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and they are forced to sleep
on the street in the cold!
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00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,813
The struggle going on
at the Hyderabad Central University,
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the martyrdom of Rohith Vemula
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and the suicides
of several Dalit students
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in universities across the country
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have sent out
a strong signal to India.
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I think this is going to become
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00:40:33,846 --> 00:40:37,380
the fulcrum of the anti-caste movement
in this country.
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Many of the pages
in L's notebook were blank
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00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,046
and some pages
were also torn out.
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00:40:58,246 --> 00:41:01,280
Some had the initials of her name
317
00:41:01,446 --> 00:41:03,413
written and the scratched out.
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00:41:03,546 --> 00:41:07,280
After several of such pages,
more letters appear.
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00:42:40,613 --> 00:42:41,780
My dear,
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00:42:49,146 --> 00:42:51,013
Diwali has come again...
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00:42:53,346 --> 00:42:55,346
A year has passed by...
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00:42:56,180 --> 00:42:57,746
just like that...
323
00:43:01,946 --> 00:43:05,113
You didn't even try
to speak to me once...
324
00:43:12,346 --> 00:43:14,513
and I still go on...
325
00:43:17,846 --> 00:43:20,846
People might think I'm crazy...
326
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,280
Maybe I am...
327
00:43:24,846 --> 00:43:26,313
I don't know anymore.
328
00:43:37,613 --> 00:43:42,446
Why does 'nostalgia' always remind me
of something good?
329
00:43:50,446 --> 00:43:54,313
While 'memory' is
only about forgetting...
330
00:44:45,980 --> 00:44:47,880
I keep thinking about it...
331
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,546
What if it were me
who had fallen in love
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00:44:51,746 --> 00:44:56,046
with someone who was of an even
"lower" caste or different religion?
333
00:44:56,246 --> 00:45:01,613
My parents would have had
the same reaction as yours.
334
00:45:10,380 --> 00:45:13,946
What my parents would do
isn't in the least bit important to me.
335
00:45:16,146 --> 00:45:19,313
What is important is what I would do!
336
00:45:26,546 --> 00:45:29,746
I remember in school too...
337
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:34,646
the "upper" caste kids
always treated us badly.
338
00:45:34,813 --> 00:45:38,013
They had a strange sense
of superiority.
339
00:45:38,180 --> 00:45:43,280
And we did the same with those
who were considered "lower"...
340
00:45:52,813 --> 00:45:55,613
After all, our parents
propagated these thoughts...
341
00:46:16,180 --> 00:46:19,813
I thought that you would fight for us.
342
00:46:19,980 --> 00:46:23,113
I thought you would stand up
to your parents.
343
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,022
But maybe...
344
00:46:25,046 --> 00:46:26,613
I was wrong...
345
00:46:27,613 --> 00:46:31,046
Maybe you were never brave,
the way I thought you were.
346
00:46:37,346 --> 00:46:39,180
I just don't understand.
347
00:46:39,346 --> 00:46:42,680
How could you stand beside me
during the strike,
348
00:46:42,846 --> 00:46:45,646
shouting slogans of freedom
stand up to the government,
349
00:46:46,146 --> 00:46:49,646
but when it came to standing up
to the casteism of your parents,
350
00:46:49,813 --> 00:46:51,513
you did not speak up?
351
00:47:46,780 --> 00:47:48,946
Another Dussehra,
352
00:47:50,780 --> 00:47:54,113
the festival where we celebrate
the victory of "good" over "evil".
353
00:47:58,046 --> 00:48:04,513
But I no longer understand
which is which...
354
00:48:18,513 --> 00:48:20,946
Memory is fragile...
355
00:48:21,446 --> 00:48:24,646
it cannot withstand
the test of 2000 years...
356
00:48:26,046 --> 00:48:31,013
Those who control it,
call it "history".
357
00:49:31,446 --> 00:49:33,246
All those nights...
358
00:49:34,013 --> 00:49:36,846
I spent talking to you
about my childhood..
359
00:49:41,113 --> 00:49:44,313
And you listened to me so patiently.
360
00:49:48,013 --> 00:49:54,446
Maybe I mistook your silence
for understanding...
361
00:50:10,613 --> 00:50:16,246
But maybe we never really
understood each other at all.
362
00:51:03,013 --> 00:51:11,013
I know now that I will never
send these letters to you,
363
00:51:11,313 --> 00:51:16,246
I no longer write to you anymore.
364
00:51:16,380 --> 00:51:20,880
But to someone
I wished you could have been.
365
00:51:34,546 --> 00:51:37,280
In her letters often talks
about the past.
366
00:51:37,446 --> 00:51:41,113
She writes about a particular night,
more than others.
367
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,222
On this night,
in the capital city of New Dehli,
368
00:51:44,246 --> 00:51:47,546
three student leaders were released from
prison and returned to their university,
369
00:51:47,746 --> 00:51:52,780
the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),
the bastion of left politics in India.
370
00:51:52,946 --> 00:51:57,680
The arrest of these students seem to
have had a deep impact on her
371
00:51:57,846 --> 00:52:02,013
and the fellow students
at the film school
372
00:52:32,346 --> 00:52:34,513
We want freedom
373
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:36,680
to marry whoever we want
374
00:52:36,846 --> 00:52:38,313
or not to marry!
375
00:52:39,113 --> 00:52:41,246
Freedom to say, "yes"!
376
00:52:41,380 --> 00:52:43,513
We are going to get it!
377
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,846
Freedom from casteism!
378
00:52:45,980 --> 00:52:47,746
Freedom from exploitation!
379
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,013
Freedom from injustice!
380
00:52:50,180 --> 00:52:52,346
Freedom from poverty!
381
00:52:52,513 --> 00:52:54,513
From starvation!
382
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:56,880
It is our right!
383
00:52:57,013 --> 00:52:58,980
More dear than our life!
384
00:52:59,113 --> 00:53:01,380
Our beloved freedom!
385
00:53:01,946 --> 00:53:05,446
You want to shut down all the voices
386
00:53:05,613 --> 00:53:07,613
that can unite!
387
00:53:07,780 --> 00:53:09,746
Whether it is of a soldier
guarding the border,
388
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,280
or a farmer toiling in the field
389
00:53:12,446 --> 00:53:14,613
or a student
protesting for freedom,
390
00:53:14,780 --> 00:53:18,013
they don't want these voices to unite!
391
00:53:18,613 --> 00:53:21,613
I want to tell you,
392
00:53:22,113 --> 00:53:25,180
Babasaheb (Dr. Ambedkar) has said
393
00:53:25,346 --> 00:53:29,780
political struggle is not enough...
394
00:53:30,346 --> 00:53:33,513
what we need is social change!
395
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,246
This is why we speak about
constitutional rights.
396
00:53:37,380 --> 00:53:39,480
And Lenin tells us,
397
00:53:39,646 --> 00:53:43,022
"Democracy is indispensable
to socialism"
398
00:53:43,046 --> 00:53:45,313
This is why
we are fighting for democracy,
399
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,013
for freedom of expression,
400
00:53:48,180 --> 00:53:49,846
and for equality.
401
00:53:49,980 --> 00:53:52,146
This is why
we are fighting for socialism.
402
00:53:52,313 --> 00:53:55,780
So that the child of a janitor
and the child of a Prime Minister
403
00:53:55,946 --> 00:53:58,880
can study at the same school!
404
00:54:01,980 --> 00:54:08,280
Let me hear you!
405
00:54:08,446 --> 00:54:11,546
We are one!
406
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:21,313
We shall fight!
407
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,380
We shall win!
408
00:55:07,113 --> 00:55:08,146
Dear
409
00:55:14,613 --> 00:55:17,346
I want to send you images
410
00:55:18,346 --> 00:55:22,613
of people as they gather here
at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.
411
00:55:27,146 --> 00:55:28,346
It is a cold November morning
412
00:55:28,513 --> 00:55:31,646
and people are wearing
shawls and sweaters.
413
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:46,046
The last time I was here to protest
was during our strike...
414
00:55:48,646 --> 00:55:51,446
It could very well be that protest...
415
00:55:51,613 --> 00:55:54,313
just the banners have changed.
416
00:56:01,313 --> 00:56:03,246
Common education for all!
417
00:56:03,380 --> 00:56:08,546
Demand workers and farmers!
418
00:56:28,813 --> 00:56:32,146
I came to Delhi to edit Shubham's film.
419
00:56:35,346 --> 00:56:37,046
But when the protest erupted,
420
00:56:37,246 --> 00:56:41,146
neither Shubham nor I could
concentrate on our work.
421
00:56:42,946 --> 00:56:45,313
We decided to join in.
422
00:56:47,980 --> 00:56:51,313
WE DEMAND AN END
TO THE HIKE IN FEES
423
00:57:01,246 --> 00:57:04,613
You know, they have increased
the fees here by 300 percent?
424
00:57:04,780 --> 00:57:11,146
THIS FIGHT IS FOR ALL UNIVERSITIES
IT IS A FIGHT FOR OUR SOCIETY
425
00:57:15,113 --> 00:57:19,346
My ancestors broke their backs
tilling fields of landowners.
426
00:57:20,246 --> 00:57:23,746
No one from my family
has even left the village.
427
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,846
EDUCATION IS NOT FOR SALE
428
00:57:27,980 --> 00:57:32,246
Is the purpose of education only to
teach you to work and fill your stomach?
429
00:57:32,380 --> 00:57:34,446
Why can't the poor
dream of getting a degree?
430
00:57:36,446 --> 00:57:38,180
This is what they are afraid of.
431
00:57:38,346 --> 00:57:41,146
If we become educated,
who will work on their fields?
432
00:57:41,313 --> 00:57:43,546
Who will mend their shoes?"
433
00:57:47,513 --> 00:57:50,180
If your father is a taxi driver
or a labourer,
434
00:57:50,346 --> 00:57:52,346
don't you have the right to education?
435
00:57:52,513 --> 00:57:56,022
A part of my scholarship goes
to support my family!
436
00:57:56,046 --> 00:57:57,122
What will I do?
437
00:57:57,146 --> 00:57:59,813
If there's a fee hike,
I'll die or become a labourer.
438
00:57:59,980 --> 00:58:02,046
Why don't you understand that?"
439
00:58:19,446 --> 00:58:20,980
Modi government,
come to your senses!
440
00:58:21,113 --> 00:58:23,780
Stop selling Education Institutions!
441
00:58:25,380 --> 00:58:27,780
Stop the violence on students!
442
00:58:29,513 --> 00:58:31,446
Long live the Revolution!
443
00:58:33,646 --> 00:58:35,546
Long live student unity!
444
00:58:37,346 --> 00:58:40,480
- Student, carry on your struggle!
- We are with you!
445
00:58:56,813 --> 00:59:00,046
I look at a lady cop
who is keeping an eye on us.
446
00:59:07,046 --> 00:59:09,513
She'll go home tonight,
tired from a day of work.
447
00:59:11,980 --> 00:59:14,646
She'll still have to make dinner
for her family.
448
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,846
What will she think of
as she dozes off?
449
00:59:28,346 --> 00:59:31,813
Tomorrow, she'll wake up early
and make lunches for her family.
450
00:59:35,146 --> 00:59:38,613
She'll send her kid off to school
and kiss him goodbye.
451
00:59:49,146 --> 00:59:51,980
I wonder what she thinks of us?
452
01:00:07,813 --> 01:00:10,313
I thought of Pasolini.
453
01:00:15,646 --> 01:00:18,880
In the student protests
in Italy in 1968,
454
01:00:19,013 --> 01:00:21,680
he supported the police...
455
01:00:24,746 --> 01:00:28,546
He said the students were children
of the bourgeoisie,
456
01:00:28,746 --> 01:00:31,980
but the police were the proletariat.
457
01:00:32,146 --> 01:00:36,546
Could these students really cause
a revolution without the workers?
458
01:00:45,946 --> 01:00:48,646
But at the protest today,
are the two sides of the barricade
459
01:00:48,813 --> 01:00:51,146
really so different?
460
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:04,180
Pressed up against her...
this is the closest she and I will be...
461
01:01:04,346 --> 01:01:08,113
Really, it is just her uniform
that separates us.
462
01:01:12,246 --> 01:01:14,480
I feel for her...
463
01:01:14,946 --> 01:01:18,680
but soon she will raise her baton
and attack my friends.
464
01:01:19,246 --> 01:01:21,280
She'll pull their hair,
grab their arms...
465
01:01:21,446 --> 01:01:23,780
And I am reminded once again
466
01:01:23,946 --> 01:01:26,813
that the police is not here
to protect me.
467
01:01:36,613 --> 01:01:40,846
Grab me all you want!
We will fight till the end!
468
01:02:10,613 --> 01:02:17,780
A souvenir of violence.
469
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:50,880
A government of sticks and bullets!
470
01:02:51,013 --> 01:02:52,946
We reject you!
471
01:02:56,980 --> 01:02:59,113
Government of lies and deceit!
472
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:00,980
We reject you!
473
01:03:01,146 --> 01:03:03,246
Hindu nationalist government!
474
01:03:03,380 --> 01:03:05,113
We reject you!
475
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,380
Anti-Dalit government!
476
01:03:07,546 --> 01:03:09,313
We reject you!
477
01:03:13,180 --> 01:03:15,980
And we have taken to the streets
478
01:03:16,113 --> 01:03:20,813
because we want
to tell the people in power
479
01:03:20,980 --> 01:03:24,380
that now the oppressed castes
and the poor
480
01:03:24,546 --> 01:03:26,513
will not tolerate your oppression!
481
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:28,980
They will no longer mend your shoes,
482
01:03:29,113 --> 01:03:31,146
will no longer clean your filthy sewers,
483
01:03:31,313 --> 01:03:35,780
will no longer burn
your rotting carcasses.
484
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,780
We are recognising our rights!
485
01:03:38,946 --> 01:03:40,046
You say you know poverty?
486
01:03:40,246 --> 01:03:43,980
You have only read about poverty
and caste oppression in books!
487
01:03:44,146 --> 01:03:46,180
But we actually face it
in our daily life!
488
01:04:03,780 --> 01:04:05,680
In this country, the rich man
489
01:04:05,846 --> 01:04:08,813
is already going abroad
to study at Oxford and Cambridge!
490
01:04:08,980 --> 01:04:10,046
And that same rich man will say,
491
01:04:10,546 --> 01:04:13,546
"the government should not
spend on subsidising education."
492
01:04:13,746 --> 01:04:18,380
Hey mister, if you have any shame,
go look at your face in the mirror!
493
01:04:20,180 --> 01:04:23,313
When your kid goes to study at Oxford,
494
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:26,846
then he too is benefitting
from that country's tax payers
495
01:04:26,980 --> 01:04:30,846
and government subsidies!
496
01:04:30,980 --> 01:04:33,046
When your kid studies
from their subsidies
497
01:04:33,246 --> 01:04:36,280
and when their tax payers pay
for your kid's education
498
01:04:36,446 --> 01:04:38,646
then you strut around proudly!
499
01:04:38,813 --> 01:04:44,380
But when it comes to paying your taxes
for the poor youth of your own country
500
01:04:44,546 --> 01:04:46,346
you can't stomach that, can you?
501
01:04:46,780 --> 01:04:49,113
If you're worried
how your tax money's spent,
502
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,346
then I say, please worry!
Most certainly worry!
503
01:04:52,513 --> 01:04:57,313
But don't ask
"Why is studying at JNU so cheap?"
504
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,780
You should be asking,
"Why is my education so overpriced?"
505
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:09,113
Dear,
506
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:13,746
I have become
a feverish prisoner of rhetoric.
507
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:20,380
Listening to the speeches
gives me a strange rush...
508
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:31,446
We are only here
to fight for our rights...
509
01:05:31,613 --> 01:05:33,046
and we will keep fighting!
510
01:05:33,246 --> 01:05:36,346
You better make your jails bigger!
511
01:05:36,513 --> 01:05:40,646
You know I have been to jail before!
Only recently you have released me!
512
01:05:40,813 --> 01:05:43,680
And you know very well
what we are made of.
513
01:05:43,846 --> 01:05:46,280
So if you want
to put us back in jail, go ahead!
514
01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:52,346
But know this, if you do arrest us,
we will come in thousands.
515
01:05:52,513 --> 01:05:56,480
So make the walls of your jails taller,
we are ready for the long run!
516
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:11,746
Some days it feels like
things could not get worse.
517
01:06:12,646 --> 01:06:14,480
How could it?
518
01:06:15,780 --> 01:06:17,746
But soon enough,
519
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,146
something even more sinister
takes place.
520
01:06:22,513 --> 01:06:25,346
The thing is, I am feeling scared.
521
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,513
Any ideology that opposes theirs
522
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,046
is not allowed to exist.
523
01:06:35,980 --> 01:06:39,480
And the sad part is,
so many people are following them.
524
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:59,180
They are questioning
what it means to be a citizen.
525
01:06:59,880 --> 01:07:02,980
As if it is not just enough
to be born on this land.
526
01:07:06,246 --> 01:07:10,646
Certain people are being declared
less Indian than others.
527
01:07:21,946 --> 01:07:25,313
Protests have erupted
in campuses across India
528
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:28,480
between last night and this morning.
529
01:07:28,646 --> 01:07:33,746
News of fresh protests is pouring in
almost faster than we can keep track of.
530
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:38,546
At the moment, several universities
across India are protesting.
531
01:07:38,746 --> 01:07:41,513
Students at New Delhi's
Jamia Milia University
532
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,013
have been protesting
for the last three days
533
01:07:44,180 --> 01:07:48,113
against the Citizenship Amendment Act,
a new law.
534
01:07:48,280 --> 01:07:51,813
Now these were largely
peaceful protests, until last evening,
535
01:07:51,980 --> 01:07:55,046
when police in riot gear
surrounded the campus
536
01:07:55,246 --> 01:07:59,446
and they began to pull out students
and beat them with batons.
537
01:07:59,613 --> 01:08:02,613
They also lobbed tear gas shells
inside the campus,
538
01:08:02,780 --> 01:08:06,180
including inside the central library,
which is a closed room,
539
01:08:06,346 --> 01:08:10,313
where approximately
fifty students were hiding.
540
01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:12,746
It isn't just
Jamia Milia Islamia anymore,
541
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:15,746
but also reports of violence
542
01:08:16,546 --> 01:08:19,513
on the Aligarh Muslim University campus.
543
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:21,480
You see the police in riot gear
544
01:08:21,646 --> 01:08:24,113
and there is some stone throwing
happening.
545
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:29,813
The police is ready with tear gas shells
and some firing as well at this point.
546
01:08:30,480 --> 01:08:32,613
A masked mob has attacked
teachers and students
547
01:08:32,780 --> 01:08:35,246
at an elite university in New Delhi.
548
01:08:35,380 --> 01:08:39,346
The incident is the latest in a series
of violent clashes across India.
549
01:08:39,513 --> 01:08:42,246
We are at the Jawaharlal
Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.
550
01:08:42,380 --> 01:08:45,646
Around hundred masked men
entered the campus on Sunday night
551
01:08:45,813 --> 01:08:48,246
and brutally beat up
students and teachers.
552
01:08:48,380 --> 01:08:50,880
More than twenty
have been severely injured.
553
01:08:51,346 --> 01:08:54,280
Who were the masked men
who are responsible for this?
554
01:08:54,446 --> 01:08:56,546
That will be a big question
going ahead.
555
01:08:56,746 --> 01:09:00,022
Many members of the students
and the faculty claiming
556
01:09:00,046 --> 01:09:02,146
that they were BJP student wing workers
557
01:09:02,313 --> 01:09:05,980
who went on the rampage
inside the JNU campus.
558
01:09:59,880 --> 01:10:03,013
I have been brutally attacked
by goons who were masked.
559
01:10:03,180 --> 01:10:05,813
I don't know...
I have been bleeding.
560
01:10:06,346 --> 01:10:10,313
I am not even in a condition to talk.
I have been brutally beaten up...
561
01:10:10,480 --> 01:10:14,113
I was there
with one of my activist friends.
562
01:11:03,280 --> 01:11:07,046
Down with ABVP
DOWN! DOWN!
563
01:11:10,813 --> 01:11:13,680
I am a common student of JNU.
564
01:11:13,846 --> 01:11:17,380
I do not belong to any party,
565
01:11:18,946 --> 01:11:24,880
but the kind of videos that
are coming out from JNU today are...
566
01:11:26,380 --> 01:11:28,113
heartbreaking!
567
01:11:28,746 --> 01:11:30,746
There have been videos coming out
568
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:35,446
where Aishe, who is our President,
has been beaten up.
569
01:11:35,613 --> 01:11:38,513
Her head is bleeding!
570
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:41,980
There are so many other students
whose heads are bleeding.
571
01:11:42,113 --> 01:11:43,346
There are teachers.
572
01:11:44,013 --> 01:11:46,980
And in all of this,
573
01:11:47,113 --> 01:11:51,880
everyone who is outside of JNU,
who is inside JNU,
574
01:11:52,013 --> 01:11:54,546
are feeling helpless
575
01:11:54,746 --> 01:11:57,813
because there is curfew imposed
right outside of JNU.
576
01:11:57,980 --> 01:12:02,013
So, anybody who is mobilising,
the police is beating them up.
577
01:12:05,013 --> 01:12:12,380
And we all need to somehow be united
not just for this protest,
578
01:12:12,546 --> 01:12:15,613
not because it's fun to shout slogans,
579
01:12:15,980 --> 01:12:21,546
not because it's fun to stand
on the road with fire torches, no!
580
01:12:21,746 --> 01:12:23,880
We have to stand
against Hindu nationalists.
581
01:12:24,013 --> 01:12:26,880
We have to stand against violence.
582
01:12:27,780 --> 01:12:32,013
We have to stand
against their stupidity
583
01:12:32,180 --> 01:12:34,646
in our everyday life.
584
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:37,746
In our day to day life.
585
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:40,646
We have to stand up
in front of our parents,
586
01:12:40,813 --> 01:12:43,980
in front of our teachers, professors,
587
01:12:44,146 --> 01:12:46,780
families, extended families
588
01:12:46,946 --> 01:12:49,446
relatives, whoever it may be.
589
01:12:49,613 --> 01:12:54,480
But if we don't do it
and if we keep on giving into this,
590
01:12:54,846 --> 01:12:59,113
people like ABVP
are going to keep happening to us.
591
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:01,246
And for now it's just JNU,
592
01:13:01,380 --> 01:13:04,946
it's just Jamia (University),
it's just Hyderabad (University)
593
01:13:05,480 --> 01:13:08,180
it's just Assam.
594
01:13:09,380 --> 01:13:12,280
It's going to be all of us someday.
595
01:13:12,446 --> 01:13:15,546
They'll enter your house and beat you.
It's not a threat.
596
01:13:15,746 --> 01:13:19,046
Because it doesn't seem
like one anymore.
597
01:13:19,246 --> 01:13:21,980
The people that have been
calling in from JNU,
598
01:13:22,113 --> 01:13:24,513
their voices are shit scared.
599
01:13:25,846 --> 01:13:28,446
They are so scared
that they are just like,
600
01:13:28,613 --> 01:13:32,346
"Yeah, we are okay, but we don't know
what will happen next."
601
01:13:35,513 --> 01:13:38,246
So, I thank you all for gathering
602
01:13:38,380 --> 01:13:41,613
and showing solidarity
603
01:13:41,946 --> 01:13:47,846
when the entire nation has
this propaganda inside their minds.
604
01:13:47,980 --> 01:13:51,980
Thank you for having
your conscience alive.
605
01:13:53,013 --> 01:13:55,480
And I would just like to say...
606
01:13:55,646 --> 01:13:57,746
Long Live the Revolution!
607
01:14:46,380 --> 01:14:51,980
So, they blindfolded me
and they put me in a car.
608
01:14:52,146 --> 01:14:54,746
I did not resist...
609
01:14:57,746 --> 01:15:00,846
Then, they took me to Lucknow.
610
01:15:02,846 --> 01:15:05,180
I was sitting between two policemen
611
01:15:05,346 --> 01:15:07,946
and I felt their pistols
against my thighs.
612
01:15:10,346 --> 01:15:15,046
I'm a 23 year old student
and I was protesting peacefully.
613
01:15:18,480 --> 01:15:21,613
Why did they send
the Anti-Terrorist Squad to arrest me?
614
01:15:25,980 --> 01:15:29,613
Then I realised that in order to be safe
615
01:15:29,780 --> 01:15:33,880
I had to prove to them
that I was not a devout Muslim,
616
01:15:34,013 --> 01:15:36,813
because they'd try
to pin me down as a terrorist.
617
01:15:42,546 --> 01:15:44,880
And in jail it was so overcrowded,
618
01:15:45,013 --> 01:15:48,380
it felt like we each had
one coffin space to ourselves.
619
01:15:49,013 --> 01:15:51,380
I was in there for four months
620
01:15:51,980 --> 01:15:54,513
and finally they granted me bail.
621
01:15:55,480 --> 01:16:01,680
It's funny because
the court called me a bright student.
622
01:16:02,746 --> 01:16:06,013
Can you tell us
if you were tortured in any way
623
01:16:06,180 --> 01:16:08,046
while you were in custody?
624
01:16:13,746 --> 01:16:16,446
There are some things
I don't want to talk about
625
01:16:17,146 --> 01:16:20,746
because maybe...
they will scare the students.
626
01:16:22,780 --> 01:16:26,146
They might get scared of going to prison
and stop protesting all together.
627
01:16:29,013 --> 01:16:31,880
Maybe I'll write about it one day.
628
01:19:17,780 --> 01:19:19,146
Dear,
629
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,146
I had a horrible dream.
630
01:19:24,380 --> 01:19:26,313
My chest...
631
01:19:26,813 --> 01:19:28,880
it feels so heavy...
632
01:19:33,546 --> 01:19:35,946
I can't go back to sleep...
633
01:19:55,380 --> 01:19:57,846
I am scared...
634
01:20:13,313 --> 01:20:17,013
People are getting arrested everywhere.
635
01:20:17,180 --> 01:20:18,780
One by one...
636
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:21,646
People are getting arrested.
637
01:21:31,246 --> 01:21:33,013
In my dream
638
01:21:34,813 --> 01:21:37,246
I had gone to a protest.
639
01:21:47,546 --> 01:21:50,146
Many of our friends were there.
640
01:21:51,846 --> 01:21:55,480
Everyone was shouting slogans.
641
01:22:01,846 --> 01:22:03,280
Suddenly...
642
01:22:09,980 --> 01:22:14,380
Suddenly, there was a police van.
643
01:22:15,380 --> 01:22:17,880
They took out large canons of water,
644
01:22:20,980 --> 01:22:23,613
they hosed everyone...
645
01:22:24,146 --> 01:22:26,813
It was very strange...
646
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:36,980
The water began
to melt away everyone.
647
01:22:39,380 --> 01:22:41,513
Prateek vanished...
648
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:44,480
then Nachi vanished.
649
01:22:49,346 --> 01:22:52,113
The water fell on Prabhati
650
01:22:56,813 --> 01:22:59,013
and she vanished too...
651
01:23:16,513 --> 01:23:18,313
Shaz...
652
01:23:20,646 --> 01:23:22,113
Himu...
653
01:23:25,746 --> 01:23:26,846
Neel...
654
01:23:38,013 --> 01:23:40,046
Devangana...
655
01:23:44,046 --> 01:23:45,513
Safoora...
656
01:23:49,780 --> 01:23:51,513
Natasha...
657
01:23:56,380 --> 01:23:57,646
Umar...
658
01:26:31,646 --> 01:26:34,113
This appears to be the last
of L's found letters
659
01:26:34,313 --> 01:26:36,113
There is however a note,
660
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:39,646
written on her last day
at the film school.
661
01:26:39,813 --> 01:26:43,546
Here she has described the feeling
of looking at the early morning sky
662
01:26:43,746 --> 01:26:46,280
after a long night with her friends.
663
01:26:46,446 --> 01:26:50,880
Scribbled behind the note, are the words
of the revolutionary poet Aamir Aziz:
664
01:26:51,046 --> 01:26:52,880
"Everything will be remembered"
665
01:28:00,046 --> 01:28:03,480
We are not just FTII now,
666
01:28:03,646 --> 01:28:05,546
we are a national voice.
667
01:28:05,746 --> 01:28:07,280
You like it or not,
we are a national voice,
668
01:28:07,446 --> 01:28:10,780
and it is very important
to be honest and genuine,
669
01:28:10,946 --> 01:28:14,022
and to be obligated to that
670
01:28:14,046 --> 01:28:20,613
because you are going
to make films for people outside!
671
01:28:20,780 --> 01:28:24,022
Not for this community of 200 people!
672
01:28:24,046 --> 01:28:26,613
So if people have supported you
for some reason,
673
01:28:26,780 --> 01:28:29,546
there should be some genuine reason
people have supported you.
674
01:28:29,746 --> 01:28:31,346
Out of no reason
nobody would have supported you.
675
01:28:31,513 --> 01:28:33,980
People who have nothing to do
with filmmaking have supported you.
676
01:28:35,313 --> 01:28:36,980
Common people!
677
01:28:37,113 --> 01:28:40,113
I'm not telling you to take it
as a moral obligation or a pressure
678
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:41,546
to behave in a certain way.
679
01:28:41,746 --> 01:28:44,846
Or to be outwardly political, not that.
680
01:28:44,980 --> 01:28:47,480
But at least in a scenario like this
681
01:28:47,646 --> 01:28:51,380
when things are reduced
to black and white.
682
01:28:54,980 --> 01:28:58,646
The current government and throughout
the world what's the problem is that
683
01:28:58,813 --> 01:29:01,813
"Either you are with us
or you don't exist."
684
01:29:01,980 --> 01:29:03,246
This is the problem.
685
01:29:03,380 --> 01:29:07,513
I think we as filmmakers
have to be more nuanced.
686
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:09,380
We should not be thinking
in black and white.
687
01:29:09,546 --> 01:29:13,146
If there is some kind of sensibility
and ownership.
688
01:29:14,813 --> 01:29:17,280
I think that is actually the crux.
689
01:29:20,513 --> 01:29:23,780
Even I had this feeling,
many might have this feeling that,
690
01:29:25,613 --> 01:29:27,846
FTII is no longer what it was
in the past.
691
01:29:28,313 --> 01:29:31,813
It's okay to be happy about
certain traditions and values
692
01:29:31,980 --> 01:29:35,180
which we had, which was good.
693
01:29:36,980 --> 01:29:40,146
But there is an evolution
which has happened intellectually also.
694
01:29:40,313 --> 01:29:42,446
You can't deny
and go back again and again.
695
01:29:42,613 --> 01:29:46,946
Then we will go back to prehistoric times
and say that everything is a problem!
696
01:29:48,546 --> 01:29:50,546
Filmmaking itself
is a history of 100 years,
697
01:29:50,746 --> 01:29:53,846
if you go back,
then cinema itself will become absurd!
698
01:29:53,980 --> 01:29:57,113
So it is also important
for us to say, "This is the reality".
699
01:29:57,280 --> 01:29:59,980
Trump is the reality,
Modi is the reality.
700
01:30:01,346 --> 01:30:03,346
I am not getting into good or bad,
701
01:30:03,513 --> 01:30:04,946
this is how it is!
702
01:30:17,980 --> 01:30:21,646
Lenin tells that revolution
is the festival of the oppressed.
703
01:30:22,613 --> 01:30:26,180
I am not actually equating us
to people who are really oppressed.
704
01:30:28,746 --> 01:30:34,022
But in a larger sense there is an urge
in everybody for an alternative.
705
01:30:34,046 --> 01:30:38,346
Everybody who is oppressed...
across religions, across countries,
706
01:30:38,513 --> 01:30:42,546
across races, across caste,
creed, colour, class-
707
01:30:42,746 --> 01:30:45,613
Everybody is looking for an alternative.
It might be different,
708
01:30:45,780 --> 01:30:50,022
but there is a genuine need
of people for a change in leadership.
709
01:30:50,046 --> 01:30:51,946
People are just looking for this.
710
01:30:53,546 --> 01:30:57,022
People are really, really looking
for people whom they can look up to.
711
01:30:57,046 --> 01:30:59,813
That's the problem
of our generation, I feel.
712
01:30:59,980 --> 01:31:02,446
I didn't have anyone to look up to.
713
01:31:02,613 --> 01:31:06,022
That's why this leadership has
gained momentum. It's actually the time.
714
01:31:06,046 --> 01:31:09,746
Even if you ask, "Why so much importance
to FTII or this struggle?"
715
01:31:09,880 --> 01:31:13,980
It is not us, it is not Chauhan,
it is not RSS, it is not the government.
716
01:31:14,113 --> 01:31:15,746
It is actually the times.
717
01:31:17,980 --> 01:31:20,180
Time has put us in a certain place
718
01:31:20,346 --> 01:31:23,146
and we reacted in a way, what we could,
719
01:31:23,313 --> 01:31:26,013
and that has gained all the momentum.
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