PSBT Films on Delhi

A Mercedes for Asish (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
A cinematic document of simultaneous degradations of human space and dignity in Delhi, images of how roads, walls, constructions-in-progress, gandanalas, billboards, all in some way attack the human body.

A Time for Stories (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film captures a literary convention in Delhi and through the participants explores the necessity of art and issues of communication and personal identity.

Beyond the mirage (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film looks at the ensuing battle for food and habitat in the skies of Delhi among the small and the big birds that throng the city. It documents the increase in the crow and kite population and the consequences that has for small birds such as sparrows and pigeons, which are fast losing this war against bigger predators.

Colours of life (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film captures the use of art in daily life for commercial life in Delhi, India.

Cityscapes Delhi (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film documents Delhi’s collapsing urban environment and recalls the city’s best-loved 19th century chronicler-Ghalib.

Delhi diary 2001 (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film attempts to understand the relationship between an iconic event and the rhythms of daily life in the city of Delhi by focusing on the Emergency of 1975-1977 and the anti-Sikh riots of 1984.

Delhi - work in progress (38 minutes)
Producer: Earthcare Productions, 2008
A film looking at the changing face of Delhi - both the physical and the political, especially in the run up to the Commonwealth Games in 2010. This film, made over 2007-2008, attempts to capture the key milestones of this transformation. The ridge, the Yamuna, the city trees, city’s poor - all have come under this axis of change. City’s leading academics, urban planners, environmentalists and activists, debate the nature of this change and the possible impact.

Into the Abyss (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
A look at the growing incidence of depression in Delhi including dramatized sequences of a 24 year old Management Executive's state of mind, even as the disorder begins to set in.
Is this My City? Women's Safety in Public Spaces in Delhi (24 minutes)
Producer: Jagori
The film records the voices and experiences of different women in the city using public spaces and transport, along with the different strategies used by JAGORI as part of the Safe Delhi Campaign.

More Men in Black (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
A film about the struggle of 10, 000 migrant oil-recliamers-on-cycles from Allahabad working to clean and recycle toxic black-oil from the drains of industrial Delhi.

New Delhi Private Limited (35 minutes)
Producer: Hazards Centre
This documentary presents Delhi's systematic transformation into a "world-class city" and how different segments of society are dealing with this change. It showcases Delhi - as it exists, as it is envisioned, is likely to become and perhaps should become and constructed by those, seldom counted as its citizens. It describes that what emerges is a commodified, privatized and cordoned city space that comes at a 'cost' and therefore for only those who can 'afford' it.

On my own (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Five single young women share their experiences of living on their own in Delhi as they justify their decisions to their families, come to terms with their own loneliness, and also discover some things about themselves.

Scavenging dreams (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film takes a look at the lives of rag pickers and waste dealers in Delhi. It's a world that thrives on the waste that the city generates. This is big business and it largely depends on the thousands of children working as rag pickers. The film is about them and their dreams and the dreams of a city somewhere gone haywire.

Smoke This (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film concentrates on the plight of the auto-rickshaw driver in the context of the recent efforts of the government to ‘clean the city of Delhi’.
The House on Gulmohar Avenue (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film is about home and belonging, tracing the filmmaker’s personal journey to understand what it means to be a Muslim in India today

University of Delhi (30 minutes)
Producer: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
The film traces the more than eight decades long history of the University of Delhi one of India’s leading educational institutions and the transformation it is undergoing to meet the challenges of the new millennium.