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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:15,980 --> 00:01:19,513 Inside a cupboard in room S18 of a hostel in the FTII 2 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,613 a box was found with several assorted items 3 00:01:22,780 --> 00:01:25,446 newspaper cuttings, dried flowers and memory cards. 4 00:01:25,613 --> 00:01:29,180 Amongst them were letters written by a student of the film school 5 00:01:29,346 --> 00:01:31,613 only named by the initial 'L'. 6 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:44,346 My love, 7 00:01:46,313 --> 00:01:47,880 How are you? 8 00:01:49,780 --> 00:01:51,846 I am thinking of you... 9 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,546 More and more it seems, as the days stretch on. 10 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,313 I'm getting by... 11 00:02:00,046 --> 00:02:04,813 still not quite able to get my head around things... 12 00:02:14,980 --> 00:02:17,680 Yesterday Mukul came to the room to have tea. 13 00:02:17,846 --> 00:02:21,613 He told me these days he's been having a strange, recurring dream. 14 00:02:23,146 --> 00:02:27,180 He narrated it to me and I also found it strange. 15 00:02:28,746 --> 00:02:32,946 And listening to him, all I could think of was of our situation. 16 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,780 I suppose it is always on my mind... 17 00:03:31,613 --> 00:03:33,846 I went to the Dean's office this morning. 18 00:03:34,813 --> 00:03:38,946 He asked me where you were, and when you would be back. 19 00:03:41,513 --> 00:03:44,046 I didn't know what to tell him. 20 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,446 How could I tell him 21 00:03:49,513 --> 00:03:52,980 that your parents locked you in a room and won't let you out... 22 00:03:54,046 --> 00:03:57,280 because you expressed your desire to marry me? 23 00:03:59,513 --> 00:04:01,446 How could I tell him... 24 00:04:02,513 --> 00:04:04,880 that even if you escaped and came back, 25 00:04:05,013 --> 00:04:07,180 they would find us 26 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,980 and who knows what they would do? 27 00:04:22,980 --> 00:04:27,046 I just told him you were dealing with a family problem... 28 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,780 That's the truth, I guess. 29 00:04:50,013 --> 00:04:52,022 Anyway, there is a party tonight. 30 00:04:52,046 --> 00:04:56,180 I don't feel like going, but maybe I will... 31 00:04:56,813 --> 00:04:58,880 Just to take these thoughts out of my mind. 32 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:04,813 I'm thinking of you... 33 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,513 What else can I say...? 34 00:05:08,346 --> 00:05:10,746 Yours, L 35 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:09,813 Yesterday Mukul came to the room to have tea. 36 00:06:09,980 --> 00:06:15,113 He told me these days he's been having a strange, recurring dream. 37 00:06:52,180 --> 00:06:54,980 It was a moonlit night... 38 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,546 I was in love with a girl... 39 00:07:02,046 --> 00:07:06,813 She was petite, so delicate. 40 00:07:08,746 --> 00:07:12,613 We had decided to meet in the field behind her house, 41 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:17,180 in the fields that would hide our love... 42 00:07:18,980 --> 00:07:21,446 I was waiting for my beloved... 43 00:07:23,246 --> 00:07:26,880 waiting to touch her gentle lips 44 00:07:28,346 --> 00:07:31,546 take her in my arms, 45 00:07:32,846 --> 00:07:34,813 kiss her. 46 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:55,980 I saw a figure crouching in the bushes. 47 00:07:56,780 --> 00:07:58,513 Suddenly... 48 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:01,880 it started to move towards me... 49 00:08:02,780 --> 00:08:05,113 and I realised that it was her father! 50 00:08:44,313 --> 00:08:49,280 Her father and his men chased me through the forest... 51 00:08:51,613 --> 00:08:56,113 I saw a river, I recognised it. 52 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,846 If I jumped into it... 53 00:09:01,980 --> 00:09:04,980 I wouldn't remember my past... I would know nothing. 54 00:09:09,513 --> 00:09:11,113 What choice did I have? 55 00:09:14,946 --> 00:09:17,546 If they caught me... I would be dead. 56 00:09:27,013 --> 00:09:32,180 I have this dream often.. More often, these days... 57 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:12,780 Sunday morning, the campus is still asleep. 58 00:10:12,946 --> 00:10:18,380 There are only the sounds of birds and faithful dogs. 59 00:11:47,446 --> 00:11:51,546 Here, life goes on. 60 00:11:51,746 --> 00:11:53,280 Tudu! What's cooking in the Mess? 61 00:11:53,446 --> 00:11:55,180 I really hope it's not pumpkin. 62 00:11:56,313 --> 00:11:58,813 - Pumpkin. - Dammit! 63 00:12:00,146 --> 00:12:01,846 I have to still take a bath! 64 00:12:01,980 --> 00:12:03,480 They will run out of beer! 65 00:12:03,646 --> 00:12:05,746 We are having a party! 66 00:13:09,980 --> 00:13:11,446 My love, 67 00:13:14,946 --> 00:13:18,113 I am sorry I have not written in so many days. 68 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,346 I have been trying to keep myself busy. 69 00:13:26,346 --> 00:13:30,313 That is the only way I can keep my mind off of things. 70 00:13:33,346 --> 00:13:35,813 I am editing Himu's film. 71 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:40,380 And I have to admit, it has not been easy. 72 00:13:43,780 --> 00:13:46,946 He watches me edit with such intensity, 73 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,613 as if there is some pattern 74 00:13:49,780 --> 00:13:52,046 that only I can see... 75 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,146 But it is not true. 76 00:13:59,180 --> 00:14:03,680 It is a complicated film and I think neither of us fully understand it. 77 00:14:05,113 --> 00:14:07,980 Did I tell you what it's about? 78 00:14:12,046 --> 00:14:13,946 It is about a girl. 79 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,480 She is having an existential crisis perhaps. 80 00:14:19,613 --> 00:14:21,980 I know you'd say, she is like me. 81 00:14:24,146 --> 00:14:25,980 - Roll camera! - Rolling. 82 00:14:26,113 --> 00:14:27,046 Shot 7, take 1. 83 00:14:29,813 --> 00:14:31,380 Shot 4, take 2! 84 00:14:32,113 --> 00:14:33,380 Roll camera! 85 00:14:57,113 --> 00:14:59,980 Today I have a day off after many days. 86 00:15:01,013 --> 00:15:03,846 And again I find myself thinking of you. 87 00:15:16,546 --> 00:15:18,513 I miss you. 88 00:15:20,246 --> 00:15:22,546 I felt your touch... 89 00:15:25,146 --> 00:15:27,346 as if you were next to me... 90 00:15:54,613 --> 00:15:58,313 It is getting harder to live on campus. 91 00:15:59,380 --> 00:16:00,880 Since you left, 92 00:16:01,013 --> 00:16:04,480 the administration has been coming at us with more vengeance. 93 00:16:12,013 --> 00:16:13,880 They're passing all kinds of rules 94 00:16:14,013 --> 00:16:17,513 which have nothing to do with students or cinema. 95 00:16:21,380 --> 00:16:23,546 I am ashamed to admit it... 96 00:16:23,980 --> 00:16:27,280 but sometimes I think that they are punishing us for going on strike. 97 00:16:28,346 --> 00:16:32,480 Like if we hadn't gone on strike, would things be better now? 98 00:16:48,180 --> 00:16:50,780 But at the time, what other choice did we have? 99 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:04,980 In the monsoon of 2015, 100 00:17:05,113 --> 00:17:07,146 the students of the state funded film school, 101 00:17:07,313 --> 00:17:09,980 the Film and Television Institute of India, 102 00:17:10,113 --> 00:17:13,180 called for a strike against appointment of their new chairman, 103 00:17:13,346 --> 00:17:15,146 Mr. Gajendra Chauhan. 104 00:17:15,613 --> 00:17:19,180 Mr. Chauhan had been appointed by the newly formed government in India, 105 00:17:19,346 --> 00:17:20,980 headed by the BJP. 106 00:17:21,980 --> 00:17:24,046 He is an actor whose most popular role 107 00:17:24,246 --> 00:17:27,646 was to play a Hindu mythological character on a soap-opera 108 00:17:27,813 --> 00:17:29,513 in the 1980s. 109 00:17:31,846 --> 00:17:34,846 The reason for the agitation was that the students claimed 110 00:17:34,980 --> 00:17:38,113 that Mr. Chauhan had been appointed to run the film school 111 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,846 because of his affiliation to the BJP 112 00:17:40,980 --> 00:17:44,546 and his support for the Hindu nationalist organisation 113 00:17:44,746 --> 00:17:46,380 the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, 114 00:17:46,746 --> 00:17:47,980 the RSS. 115 00:17:48,146 --> 00:17:51,880 Students further claimed that it was not just FTII 116 00:17:52,013 --> 00:17:55,180 but the government had appointed many RSS sympathisers 117 00:17:55,546 --> 00:17:58,380 to various public funded institutes. 118 00:17:58,546 --> 00:18:00,446 All the agents of Modi... 119 00:18:00,613 --> 00:18:02,280 Get out of here! 120 00:18:05,980 --> 00:18:07,813 Eisenstein, Pudovkin! 121 00:18:07,980 --> 00:18:09,880 We shall fight! We shall win! 122 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,846 Several students, academics and artists supported the strike, 123 00:18:16,980 --> 00:18:20,946 and soon news channels featured it on prime time news. 124 00:18:25,180 --> 00:18:27,980 Our protest is not just against these few appointees. 125 00:18:28,113 --> 00:18:30,846 Our opposition is towards all these political appointments 126 00:18:30,980 --> 00:18:33,113 that this government is making in all Public Institutes 127 00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:36,446 since the past one year they have come into power. 128 00:18:36,613 --> 00:18:39,613 All these people are associated with a certain ideology. 129 00:18:39,780 --> 00:18:45,346 If anyone questions their ideology, they are immediately shut down. 130 00:18:45,513 --> 00:18:49,013 If someone is against their views, they are beaten! 131 00:18:49,180 --> 00:18:50,513 If anyone makes a film 132 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,546 that doesn't suit their ideology, it is banned. 133 00:19:02,346 --> 00:19:05,813 Those protesting against the appointment of Mr. Gajendra Chauhan are anti Hindu. 134 00:19:05,980 --> 00:19:10,780 Gajendra Chauhan has acted in over 150 films and 600 TV shows. 135 00:19:10,946 --> 00:19:13,613 Those people who are questioning the appointment 136 00:19:13,780 --> 00:19:17,013 must be joking or must be mentally ill. 137 00:19:17,180 --> 00:19:18,256 It is quite clear 138 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,846 that all they want is to promote their anti-Hindu agenda. 139 00:19:20,980 --> 00:19:23,046 And that's their goal! 140 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,480 As the weeks turned to months, 141 00:19:43,646 --> 00:19:46,446 the students showed no sign of backing down. 142 00:19:46,613 --> 00:19:48,880 The Government had to take notice. 143 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,246 First, the students were threatened with rustication. 144 00:19:54,380 --> 00:19:55,846 When they did not stop, 145 00:19:55,980 --> 00:19:59,446 five students were arrested in a midnight siege. 146 00:20:07,780 --> 00:20:10,380 If you are going to arrest students in the middle of the night, 147 00:20:10,546 --> 00:20:14,046 there should be some legal basis! At least show us an arrest warrant! 148 00:20:14,246 --> 00:20:16,513 What's going on? Is this now a police state? 149 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,046 Soon the machinery in place were used to change the narrative. 150 00:20:20,246 --> 00:20:24,280 Students were called "anti-national" and "anti-Hindu". 151 00:20:24,446 --> 00:20:26,980 Subsequently, the students lost the public sympathy 152 00:20:27,146 --> 00:20:28,813 and were viewed as freeloaders 153 00:20:28,980 --> 00:20:31,746 living off tax-payer funded subsidies. 154 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:36,980 In a desperate attempt, 155 00:20:37,113 --> 00:20:41,446 several students went on a hunger strike, and were hospitalised. 156 00:20:41,613 --> 00:20:44,346 Unable to hold on, the strike was finally called off 157 00:20:44,513 --> 00:20:46,946 after 139 days. 158 00:21:28,380 --> 00:21:30,680 Do you remember that night during the strike? 159 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,746 Someone had set up projectors under the trees. 160 00:21:45,180 --> 00:21:47,380 You were sitting next to me. 161 00:21:54,813 --> 00:21:57,646 I leaned my head on your shoulder 162 00:22:03,180 --> 00:22:05,546 in the pale projector light... 163 00:22:08,246 --> 00:22:10,146 I don't know how it happened... 164 00:22:11,813 --> 00:22:13,946 but soon we were kissing. 165 00:22:44,113 --> 00:22:52,113 I miss you. Yours, L. 166 00:24:05,146 --> 00:24:09,980 It must be raining outside. 167 00:24:57,980 --> 00:25:02,013 There was this question also, like during the strike, 168 00:25:02,446 --> 00:25:04,246 if the entire country has supported us 169 00:25:04,380 --> 00:25:06,646 what if someone else is attacked tomorrow? 170 00:25:06,813 --> 00:25:08,746 If something happens in a different institute, 171 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,680 is it our responsibility to stand with them? 172 00:25:11,846 --> 00:25:16,346 It's not just a moral obligation I feel, it is also because the current scenario 173 00:25:17,146 --> 00:25:21,446 if you guys think that if you are silent and if we listen to whatever they say, 174 00:25:21,613 --> 00:25:24,846 your life will be better, absolutely it's a lie! 175 00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:27,980 It is not going to be that. It actually will get worse. 176 00:25:40,513 --> 00:25:41,613 My dear, 177 00:25:48,346 --> 00:25:51,746 Last night the Student Union elections began. 178 00:25:57,380 --> 00:26:00,780 Because of the yellow tarpaulin spread on the floor, 179 00:26:00,946 --> 00:26:03,246 the whole court was ablaze with yellow light! 180 00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:08,180 Even the leaves on the trees looked golden. 181 00:26:14,946 --> 00:26:18,146 Anunay, with his gentle voice 182 00:26:18,980 --> 00:26:22,013 spoke about preserving the past. 183 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:30,613 And Ranjit spoke about safeguarding the future. 184 00:26:32,046 --> 00:26:38,013 OUR OLD CAR NEEDS A NEW COAT OF PAINT 185 00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:42,546 LET'S COME TOGETHER TO PAINT IT! 186 00:26:44,046 --> 00:26:45,246 Why did we show the film? 187 00:26:45,380 --> 00:26:48,113 Why are these people coming and talking to us? 188 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,680 Why is this discussion happening? It is all happening so that we feed into 189 00:26:53,313 --> 00:26:57,313 the clarity of vision that is needed to run this place. 190 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,013 Run this place from the student community's side, 191 00:27:01,180 --> 00:27:03,446 from the administration's side. 192 00:27:03,613 --> 00:27:07,313 What is the need for this place to exist in today's times? 193 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,280 If in the course of these three-four or five days, 194 00:27:10,446 --> 00:27:15,013 if we can organically understand what is this vision that is emerging 195 00:27:15,180 --> 00:27:17,280 not from the burden of history, 196 00:27:17,446 --> 00:27:19,980 not from a legacy that is being handed to us 197 00:27:20,146 --> 00:27:21,746 and forced upon us, 198 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,280 but, by truly observing, what is the status today? 199 00:27:25,446 --> 00:27:28,446 Why do we need a film school like this in our times? 200 00:27:28,613 --> 00:27:32,046 Such a heavily subsidised film school in today's times? 201 00:27:32,513 --> 00:27:34,146 What are our privileges here? 202 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,746 How many of us could have even 203 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,813 dreamt of making films if this place did not exist? 204 00:28:04,180 --> 00:28:08,613 Did I tell you I visited Nachi in his village in Polachi? 205 00:28:10,380 --> 00:28:14,646 We rode around on his father's motorcycle. 206 00:28:15,846 --> 00:28:18,613 People passed us glances as we went by... 207 00:28:19,846 --> 00:28:21,280 it was funny... 208 00:28:29,380 --> 00:28:32,646 But Nachi and I were not always friends. 209 00:28:33,813 --> 00:28:35,613 The first time we met, 210 00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:38,446 I found him too excited, too articulate. 211 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,022 Maybe because we are so different from one another, 212 00:28:45,046 --> 00:28:47,980 we found in each other a compassionate friendship. 213 00:28:53,846 --> 00:28:56,146 Out on the basketball court, I saw all our friends 214 00:28:56,313 --> 00:28:58,846 who have now become so dear to me. 215 00:28:59,646 --> 00:29:02,813 Neel, Shaz, Prabhati... 216 00:29:27,380 --> 00:29:29,746 And amongst them, were new faces too... 217 00:29:30,313 --> 00:29:33,646 who were listening so sincerely to everything we were saying. 218 00:29:34,646 --> 00:29:36,446 Those faces were of the new students. 219 00:29:39,780 --> 00:29:42,013 I imagined that in three years 220 00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:45,180 they too might have the same deep love for one another. 221 00:29:47,180 --> 00:29:49,046 Perhaps, 222 00:29:49,246 --> 00:29:52,013 they might lean on each other's shoulders 223 00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:56,146 and close their eyes with the tiredness of being alive. 224 00:29:57,446 --> 00:30:00,480 Perhaps, they might think of each other as lovers, 225 00:30:00,646 --> 00:30:03,780 as brothers, as parents or as teachers. 226 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,446 I saw Himu coming to us from afar. 227 00:30:23,613 --> 00:30:27,113 A light shone in his hands, a small candle, 228 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,146 placed on a cake. 229 00:30:35,746 --> 00:30:39,613 The golden light sparkled in his shy eyes. 230 00:30:42,613 --> 00:30:45,846 "Whose birthday is it?" somebody asked. 231 00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:51,546 "Not any of ours" he replied coyly... 232 00:30:51,746 --> 00:30:53,680 "This cake is for Madhubala's birthday." 233 00:31:18,846 --> 00:31:21,446 Hearing this, we were all overjoyed 234 00:31:24,246 --> 00:31:27,180 and we sang a song from the late actress' movie: 235 00:31:27,346 --> 00:31:29,680 "When one has loved, what is there to fear" 236 00:31:40,113 --> 00:31:43,680 and rejoiced for Madhubala, for cinema and for love! 237 00:31:45,046 --> 00:31:48,613 Because we knew, after all, they are one and the same! 238 00:32:28,346 --> 00:32:32,113 On the margins of her letters L often makes drawings. 239 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,113 Doodles, shapes and forms that are unfamiliar 240 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,046 and quite often appear to be hands. 241 00:34:04,146 --> 00:34:08,680 I believe that the students are at the frontline of the fight 242 00:34:08,846 --> 00:34:13,313 against this dictatorial government. 243 00:34:19,846 --> 00:34:23,680 I went to the Hyderabad Central University (HCU). 244 00:34:24,313 --> 00:34:30,280 Over there, women students were threatened with rape by the police. 245 00:34:30,446 --> 00:34:33,846 The police beat them and threatened them with rape. 246 00:34:34,613 --> 00:34:37,813 Where there were Bahujan and Dalit students, 247 00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:40,846 they were called "untouchables". 248 00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:43,613 And where there were Muslim students, 249 00:34:43,780 --> 00:34:47,813 they had the usual word for them: "terrorists". 250 00:34:56,780 --> 00:34:57,980 My dear, 251 00:35:04,946 --> 00:35:08,380 Do you still keep cuttings from newspapers like you used to? 252 00:35:12,446 --> 00:35:15,346 When I asked you why you were doing it, 253 00:35:15,513 --> 00:35:18,813 you said it was because you didn't want to forget. 254 00:35:25,313 --> 00:35:26,546 Perhaps because I am an editor, 255 00:35:26,746 --> 00:35:29,680 I continued the timeline, where you left it off. 256 00:35:30,780 --> 00:35:35,380 Your notes from the past meet mine from the present. 257 00:35:40,380 --> 00:35:41,980 You were right. 258 00:35:44,946 --> 00:35:48,946 Our memory cannot keep up with these times, it seems. 259 00:36:04,146 --> 00:36:07,280 Trump's shocking victory was quickly forgotten 260 00:36:07,746 --> 00:36:10,746 when the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh took place. 261 00:36:17,146 --> 00:36:19,680 We had hardly any time to process this, 262 00:36:19,846 --> 00:36:22,813 before the lynching of Pehlu Khan happened. 263 00:36:25,780 --> 00:36:32,046 The image of his helpless face pleading to an angry mob to allow him to live. 264 00:36:48,113 --> 00:36:53,313 And then the image of flogging of the young Dalit men in Una. 265 00:36:55,180 --> 00:36:57,980 It was quickly replaced by the image of a Muslim girl, 266 00:36:58,146 --> 00:37:00,313 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. 268 00:37:12,813 --> 00:37:20,813 A fleeting memory of violence. 269 00:37:25,780 --> 00:37:29,113 But one clipping never leaves me no matter what I do. 270 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,980 It is from January 2016. 271 00:37:44,746 --> 00:37:49,746 The day Rohith Vemula took his own life. 272 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,846 In his death, Rohith Vemula has emerged as a symbol 273 00:38:11,980 --> 00:38:14,980 of protest against injustice and indignity. 274 00:38:15,113 --> 00:38:18,380 The 26 year old PhD student killed himself on Sunday 275 00:38:18,546 --> 00:38:22,180 inside the campus of the Hyderabad Central University. 276 00:38:22,346 --> 00:38:25,980 Mr. Vemula was a member of the Ambedkar Students' Association, 277 00:38:26,113 --> 00:38:27,980 which fights for the rights of Dalits, 278 00:38:28,113 --> 00:38:30,546 formerly known as "untouchables". 279 00:38:31,846 --> 00:38:35,446 Rohith and five other students allegedly faced discrimination 280 00:38:35,613 --> 00:38:38,746 from the "upper" caste administration at HCU 281 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,146 when he got into an altercation with a leader of the student-wing 282 00:38:42,313 --> 00:38:45,180 of the ruling party, the ABVP. 283 00:38:46,446 --> 00:38:49,880 His death sparked protests on campuses worldwide last week 284 00:38:50,013 --> 00:38:51,513 and prompted a national debate 285 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,680 about the discrimination of Dalit students and academics 286 00:38:54,846 --> 00:38:56,980 at Indian universities. 287 00:38:57,113 --> 00:39:00,113 The government has launched a judicial probe into the death 288 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,846 and Prime Minister Modi has said that "Mother India has lost her son". 289 00:39:11,513 --> 00:39:14,846 Yes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 290 00:39:14,980 --> 00:39:20,313 he said that "India has lost her son". 291 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:25,280 We have another question to be put before Mr. Modi. 292 00:39:25,846 --> 00:39:28,880 If India has lost her son... 293 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,013 the same son was branded as anti-national! 294 00:39:34,180 --> 00:39:37,346 The same son was branded as casteist 295 00:39:37,513 --> 00:39:41,280 because he was first fighting against casteism! 296 00:39:41,446 --> 00:39:44,313 The same son was branded as an "extremist" 297 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,813 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, 299 00:39:51,146 --> 00:39:52,313 Mr. Bandaru Dattatreya. 300 00:39:53,313 --> 00:39:55,146 And you think about it... 301 00:39:55,313 --> 00:39:59,946 As of July, five students were suspended. 302 00:40:00,313 --> 00:40:03,546 Their research fellowship is stopped! 303 00:40:04,046 --> 00:40:06,446 After 4th January, 304 00:40:07,046 --> 00:40:10,846 they are banned from using the library, 305 00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:13,446 they are thrown out of their hostel rooms 306 00:40:13,613 --> 00:40:16,746 and they are forced to sleep on the street in the cold! 307 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,813 The struggle going on at the Hyderabad Central University, 308 00:40:20,980 --> 00:40:23,346 the martyrdom of Rohith Vemula 309 00:40:23,513 --> 00:40:26,513 and the suicides of several Dalit students 310 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,513 in universities across the country 311 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,813 have sent out a strong signal to India. 312 00:40:31,980 --> 00:40:33,513 I think this is going to become 313 00:40:33,846 --> 00:40:37,380 the fulcrum of the anti-caste movement in this country. 314 00:40:52,746 --> 00:40:56,113 Many of the pages in L's notebook were blank 315 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,046 and some pages were also torn out. 316 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. 318 00:41:03,546 --> 00:41:07,280 After several of such pages, more letters appear. 319 00:42:40,613 --> 00:42:41,780 My dear, 320 00:42:49,146 --> 00:42:51,013 Diwali has come again... 321 00:42:53,346 --> 00:42:55,346 A year has passed by... 322 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 332 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. 57828

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