Celebrating the icon of Indian film music - Allah Rakha Rahman. Screened at festivals across Busan, Delhi, Edinburgh, Houston, Madrid, Melbourne, Panaji, Prague, Los Angeles, Lucknow, San Francisco, Stuttgart, Thrissur and Tokyo, among others.
Directed by Umesh Aggarwal | 2015
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Umesh Aggarwal has been producing and directing television shows and documentary films for over twenty years. His films have been screened and awarded at various national and international film festivals. Brokering News, his film on paid news, also for PSBT, was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_M....
PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, www.civilsocietyonline.com/ci..., psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2..., www.thehindu.com/features/cin..., psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2...)
PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographers: Alphonse Roy, Vijay Karthik, Anu Gunn, Bipin Anand, Madhav Salunke, U. Shekhar Naidu
Editor: Naveen Samhotra
Sound Designers: K. J. Singh, Vijay Ratham
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs
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Last updated: July 2020