NCPA

The NCPA Fresh Pix Series was started to create an audience for regional and indie cinema that often does not reach the lay audience, outside of the film festival circuit.

Diary of a Common Man 

5.30 pm

Hindi film with English subtitles 

(Col-60 mins-2011)

Diary of a Common Man comes as a much-deserved tribute to the common man, his achievements, his strengths and weaknesses, and above all his silence. The film addresses issues from the common man’s perspective. The first story in a series is the story of a father who struggles to arrange the donation for his son’s medical education and his fight against corruption and injustice.

Directed by Dr Swaroop Sabanur

Cast: Virendra Saxena and others

Produced by Shiva Joshi

So Heddan So Hoddan 

7.00 pm 

Sindhi, Kutchi, and Hindustani film with English subtitles 

(Col-52 mins-2011)

This documentary traces the relationship of Umar, a present day farmer and self-taught Sufi scholar from Kutch with that of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, a medieval Sufi poet. Many of Bhitai’s poems speak of the pain of parting, of the inevitability of loss and of deep grief that takes one to unknown and mysterious terrains. Umar Haji Suleiman of Abdasa in Kutch, Gujarat lives his life through the poetry of Bhitai. So Heddan So Hoddan has won IDPA Silvers for Script, Sound Design and Cinematography.

Directed by Anjali Monteiro & K. P. Jayasankar