Children of Mandala / a film by Anand Patwardhan.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
Hindi
Published/​Created
[Place of publication not identified] : [Distributed by] Anand Patwardhan, [2009]
Description
1 streaming video file (5 min.) : digital, sound, color

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Summary note
In Mandala, Mumbai, slum children huddle in a makeshift school as rain falls into waiting metal buckets. Inside huts leaning against each other, tarpaulin draped over corrugated roofs and sheets draped over entrances, they deliver messages of invitation, solidarity and protest. Three girls and a boy ask the viewer to "Stay today O Stranger in our Mandala village." This is Mandala Life School run by a movement for the homeless that fights a State policy intent on withholding education from the poor while destroying the only homes they have managed to build.
Notes
  • Title from title frames.
  • Originally produced in [2009].
Creation/​Production credits
Camera and sound, Anand Patwardhan, Simantini Dhuru.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 01, 2021).
Language note
In Hindi with English subtitles.
Publisher no.
ap-ffman
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