Anand grew up in a milieu that questioned the latter. His family’s elders had fought for India’s Independence but rarely spoken about it. As his parents aged, Anand began to film with whatever equipment was at hand. Revisiting home movie footage a decade after his parents had passed, was a revelation. Today self-confessed supremacists whose ideology once inspired the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, are in power. As they rewrite India’s history, memories of the past have become more precious than mere personal nostalgia.

Anand Patwardhan has been making documentary films for over five decades pursuing issues at the crux of social and political life in India. Many of his films were at one time or another banned by state channels. Anand describes himself as “a non-serious human being forced by circumstances to make serious films”.