Kamal Swaroop

घाशीराम कोतवाल

Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Mani Kaul

Om Puri, Mohan Agashe

A stylized version of Vijay Tendulkar’s radical Marathi play chronicling the Peshwa regime in western India, a collective effort of direction and cinematography made by an independent group of young filmmakers.

Rangbhoomi

Kamal Swaroop

Rangbhoomi follows Kamal Swaroop as he attempts to trace the contours of Dada Saheb Phalke's life in Varansasi after he withdrew, disillusioned, from the world of cinema and decided to take up theater. While in Varanasi, Phalke wrote a semi-autobiographical play titled "Rangbhoomi" which forms the core of this cinematic exploration.

Battle of Banaras

Kamal Swaroop

An observation of the political climate in India leading upto a highly anticipated election.

ओम-दर-ब-दर

Kamal Swaroop

Anita Kanwar, Gopi Desai

Om Dar-Ba-Dar is a 1988 Indian postmodernist Hindi film directed by Kamal Swaroop and starring Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia and Gopi Desai in lead roles. The film set in Ajmer and Pushkar in Rajasthan, employed nonlinear narrative and an absurdist storyline to satire mythology, arts, politics and philosophy.

Pushkar Puran

Kamal Swaroop

An attempt to engage with the historical, mythical and the contemporary worlds of the city of Pushkar

Open Cafe v2.5

Naveen Padmanabha

Kamal Swaroop

An old man ventures into the virtual world.

Phalke's Children

Kamal Swaroop

Dada Saheb Phalke ( 1870 – 1944) the father of Indian film industry & his own eight children. The film traces his life & career through the reminiscence of his surviving children, family photographs and his films.

Tracing Phalke

Kamal Swaroop

Director Kamal Swaroop and a group of students from the Film and Television Institute of India explore the origins and the roots of the founding father of Indian Cinema.

Samudra Manthan

Kamal Swaroop

At Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest congregation of religious pilgrims, a troupe of theatre actors stage a play based on an origin myth of Hinduism – the churning of the cosmic ocean. The legend tells of an epic battle between the gods and the demons for an elixir of immortality. The mela (or fair) is celebrated at the site where the elixir was believed to have fallen. Today, millions of Hindu pilgrims gather there to bathe in the holy river over a two-month period.

Atul

Kamal Swaroop

Atul Dodiya’s oeuvre spans the vastness of the history of art and an in depth understanding and exploration of themes in India’s freedom movement. The Film follows his paintings and work to construct a story of the artist’s life, to understand the impulses and elements behind his art and his responses to the world around him.