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The Ebb Tide 2019
Shot in the monsoon of 2018 in the Mirya creek in Maharashtra, the film records the unfolding of fishermen and fishing processes in the village of Mirya. It seeks to highlight some of the troubled and lived realities of the fishing community in the current times in an Indian village. The film is also a deliberation on the process of production of the film itself.

One Mustard Seed 2019
Why do we have such a contentious relationship with the idea of dying? What keeps us from looking at death, or the dying, in the eye, from making peace with the process? The Film wonders if the process of dying can become meaningful and if embracing our own mortality might be the key to a more fulfilling life.

The death of us 2018
The debate on death penalty is loud and impassioned. Instead of echoing that cacophony, The Death of Us, quietly reflects on a range of cases in which the death penalty was pronounced. Sometimes, ending in the execution of the convicted; sometimes in commutation to a life sentence; and sometimes to acquittal and release. Speaking to some who have been on death row, and others closely involved with the cases, we engage in complex conversations on crime and punishment, revenge and justice, popular rhetoric and personal experiences. Only to find ourselves confronted by larger ethical and moral questions across time and space.

Candles in the Wind 2013
Women of rural Punjab have long forgotten to sing the songs of harvest in the midst of escalating farm suicides. The Film witnesses the march of widows of the 'Green Revolution' in Punjab as they re-negotiate the rules of engagement and the politics of domination, in their bid to survive. For the first time, Candles in the Wind tells the story from inside this area, known as the green reserve of India, a place which is relentlessly transforming itself into a social desert, where women are obliged to take over dramatic situations without any form of protection or assistance. Their struggle gives us a window into the social-economic flux in rural India - a nuanced understanding of the silent under-currents of a gender-specific struggle in the larger narrative of surviving as a farmer in these times.

There is Something in the Air 2011
As a call from the periphery of sanity, the film is a series of dream narratives, and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women 'petitioners' at the shrine of a Sufi Saint in North India.

Brokering News: Media, Money and Middleman 2011
The Film investigates the state of news in India. Journalism is up for sale and selling of editorial space has become both blatant and institutionalised.

Certified Universal 2009
An impressionistic sketch of ‘the public’ as created by our cinema and its relationship with cinema itself.

Nee Yar (Who are You) 2009
A documentary on the struggle of Tamil writer Sundara Ramaswamy to evolve modern literature in a society stuck with caste identities, traditional hypocrisy and language chauvinism.

The House On Gulmohar Avenue 2005
A film about home and belonging, tracing the filmmaker's personal journey to understand what it means to be a Muslim in India today.

Three Women and a Camera 1998
A portrait of a retired and two working professional photographers in India.

Poothiruvathira Raavil 1998

Char Adhyay 1997 star_border 5.7
Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence, sometimes at the expense of their personal lives.

Karuvelam Pookkal 1996 star_border 8
Nallamuthu and Vadivu face several hardships due to the rising poverty and are forced to send their three children to work as child laborers.

Katha Doan Ganpatraonchi 1996
Located in a seaside village in Maharashtra during the 60s, the film unfolds over two decades. It is a tragic tale of how the best of friendships can rupture over a trivial quarrel. Once a rupture takes place, there are always people who know how to turn a quarrel to their own advantage, even if the main adversaries are completely destroyed in the process.

Naseem 1995 star_border 7
Mumbai, 1992. Naseem, a 15 year-old schoolgirl, lives with her grandfather and grows up with stories of pre-independence communal harmony. Later, she helplessly watches the communal situation regression with the demolition of Babri Masjid.

Kakababu Here Gelen? 1995
A detective Kakababu investigates a case where a very old bible of great value gets stolen by a criminal.

Tarpan 1995 star_border 7
The film set in the 1940s, in a fictitious village in the Shekhavati region in Rajasthan, where no girl child survives beyond the age of seven. It deals with larger issues of communalism and caste system through four inter-related stories.

Mammo 1994 star_border 5.2
Mammo is an account of a certain period in the life of Riyaz, a teenager who lives with his grandmother Fayyazi as they get a visit from his grandma’s sister Mehmooda Begum Anwar Ali, commonly known as ‘Mammo’.

Golokdham Rahasya 1992
"Golokdham Rahasya" is a mystery drama film about a Bengali biochemist named Nihar Ranjan Dutta and his involvement in a series of events, including a burglary and a murder.

Dharavi 1991 star_border 6.3
The film follows a scrappy taxi driver's fortunes as he tries to break out from the clutches of poverty, devising plans and investing all his money in a dubious schemes which eventually blow out on him, coming under the eye of unscrupulous politician and local goons, yet he still perseveres for his dreams.

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Fauji 1989 star_border 6
A highly popular TV Series about the admission a batch of trainees in a commando school, their training and eventual induction as soldiers.

The Discovery of India 1988 star_border 9.8
Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.