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Sastry, And I Make Short Films
Sastry, This Bit of That India
Look, what do you want to convey in this film?
Er, I don’t know. It’s a very difficult question. Er, I make films, to express myself, to show myself, to show other people, perhaps something more than myself. Perhaps it is the sun in the belly.
From And I Make Short Films.
This Bit of That India is less known than I am 20, which elicited much coverage when rediscovered on the internet many years later.
Sastry also produced more ‘official’ films (e.g. Sastry (The Burning Sun), Sastry (Our Indira)). I rarely know what to make of the balance between his subversive tendencies (on display at least in the three films above) and the official side. I doubt either he or his superiors really knew either.
References
Sastry, S.N.S., editor, And I Make Short Films, 1968. |
Sastry, S.N.S., editor, This Bit of That India, 1972. |
Sastry, S.N.S., editor, Our Indira, 1973. |
Sastry, S.N.S., editor, The Burning Sun, 1973. |