{"id":96731,"date":"2024-09-12T18:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=96731"},"modified":"2024-09-12T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:42:30","slug":"most-of-my-films-are-created-during-the-editing-stage-anand-patwardhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=96731","title":{"rendered":"Most of my films are created during the editing stage : Anand Patwardhan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Some films come together without an obvious storyline at the outset.\u00a0For award winning documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, his recent documentary film \u2018Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam\u2019 (The World is Family, 2023) did not start out as a film in his imagination, but as a video documentation of his parents\u2019 lives and family gatherings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWith \u2018Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam\u2019, which started out as me recording my parents and families\u2019 lives since the 1990s for personal use, I first discovered that there was a film waiting to be made, that overlapped my experience of family with my relatives\u2019 fight for freedom and unity, during this period,\u201d Anand said, during the recently held MOG Sundays talk at the Museum of Goa, Pilerne.<\/p>\n

Anand screened the 96 minute documentary film, which won the Best Documentary award at The New York Indian Film Festival, 2024, at the Museum of Goa, which was followed by a lively interaction with the audience, who were curious about his editing techniques.<\/p>\n

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A compelling blend of political and personal narratives, the film documents Anand\u2019s parents, Wasudev Hari Patwardhan and Nirmala Dialdas Patwardhan, in their old age \u2013 sharing their life stories, showcasing their tight familial bond and navigating growing health issues, with archival data depicting families\u2019 involvement in India\u2019s freedom struggle also woven into the narrative.<\/p>\n

Mumbai-based Anand, whose previous documentary films like \u2018Ram Ke Naam\u2019, \u2018War and Peace\u2019, among others, have won critical acclaim, revealed that his style of filmmaking is not conventional, as he does not always conceptualise a script to initiate the process, stating that \u201cthe film\u2019s script, in the form of commentary and narration, emerges at the very end. My films are theoretically fleshed out during the editing process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he had previously understood there was more to his parents’ histories, it was only when he started interviewing his relatives after his parents\u2019 demises to fill in the gaps in the stories they shared, and while going through the footage during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, that the film\u2019s storyline began to fall into place.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore conceptualising \u2018Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam\u2019, I had only a broad idea of my families\u2019 involvement in the freedom struggle. Through piecing information together from interviews I had with my relatives, I learnt that my father\u2019s brothers, Rau and Achyut Patwardhan, were Gandhian socialists and underground revolutionaries, respectively, who contributed to the freedom struggle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy maternal grandfather, Bhai Pratap Dialdas, who was based in Karachi, regularly hosted India\u2019s leaders in the independence movement. All these concepts eventually fell into place to create the film,\u201d Anand added.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s dual focus on establishing the common ground between his close bonds with his parents and his families\u2019 previously not well-known fight against British colonialism to unite India as a family, is what led him to name the film \u2018Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam\u2019 – the world is family, he maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : Some films come together without an obvious storyline at the outset.\u00a0For award winning documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, his recent documentary film \u2018Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam\u2019 (The World is Family, 2023) did not start out as a film in his imagination, but as a video documentation of his parents\u2019 lives and family gatherings.\u00a0 \u201cWith \u2018Vasudhaiva […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":96732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-96731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96733,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96731\/revisions\/96733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}