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I for India (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Hindi ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
70 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Sandhya Suri

Written By:
Sandhya Suri

Actors:
Yash Pal Suri ..... Himself

Synopsis:

In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K.

The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy two Super-8 cameras, two projectors and two reel to reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For 40 years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home - images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket - his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts.

Back in India, his relatives in turn, respond with their own 'cine-letters' telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life. As time passes and the planned return to India becomes an increasingly remote possibility, the joy and curiosity of the early exchanges give way to the darker reality of alienation, racism and a family falling apart. A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.

Documentary about the experiences of the director's family, who emigrated from India to England in the 1960s. Uses edited home movie footage filmed by her father over a forty year period on Super 8, and follows the fortunes of the family and their integration into British society throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Also follows a brief return to India in 1982, and the later emigration of sister Vanita to Australia. Inlcudes interviews with various friends and relatives.

This documentary from director Sandhya Suri chronicles his fathers emigration from India to England in the mid-1960s. Both Yash Pal Suri and his family in India use Super 8 cameras to document their lives making I FOR INDIA a revealing look at a family and its absent son.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 04 November, 2009.