Had - Anhad

Journeys with Ram and Kabir (Dur: 103 min) Kabir was a 15th century mystic poet of north India who defied the boundaries between Hindu and Muslim. He had a Muslim name and upbringing, but his poetry repeatedly invokes the widely revered Hindu name for God – Ram. Who is Kabir's Ram? This film journeys through song and poem into the politics of religion, and finds a myriad answers on both sides of the hostile border between India and Pakistan.

• 1st Prize (shared), One Billion Eyes Documentary Film Festival, August 2008, Chennai
• Mahindra Indo-Americal Arts Council Film Festival, Nov 5-9, New York, USA
• World Performing Arts Festival, Nov, 2008, Lahore, Pakistan
• Bangalore International Film Festival, Jan, 2009, Bangalore, India
• Kala Ghoda Festival, Feb, 2009, Mumbai
• Inaugural film, VIBGYOR International Film Festival, Feb, 2009, Thrissur, Kerala, India
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (as Juror’s work), Nov 2009
• 3rd Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, June 2010
• Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Oct 2010
• Telecast twice on NDTV-24/7television channel, India

Chalo Hamara Des

Journeys with Kabir and Friends (Dur: 98 min) This film is a journey in search of Kabir's "des" or country and unfolds through the interwoven narratives of two people from two very different countries – Dalit folk singer Prahlad Tipaniya and North American scholar Linda Hess. We enter the world of Kabir through song interwoven in the personal and public lives of these two individuals, brought together in an unlikely friendship by the amazing universality and cross- cultural resonance of Kabir.

• One Billion Eyes Documentary Film Festival, August 2008, Chennai, India
• World Performing Arts Festival, Nov, 2008, Lahore, Pakistan
• International Festival of Sacred Arts, Feb, 2009 Delhi, India
• VIBGYOR International Film Festival, Feb, 2009, Thrissur, Kerala, India
• Film South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept 2009
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (as Juror's work), Nov 2009
• Travelling Film South Asia, 2010-2011
• Dhaka International Documentary Festival, January 2010
• World Film 2009 - Tartu Festival of Visual Culture, Estonia, Mar 2010
• 3rd Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, June 2010
• Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival, Sept 2010
• Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Oct 2010

Koi Sunta Hai

Journeys with Kumar and Kabir (Dur: 96 min) This film interweaves the oral folk traditions of Kabir in central India with the intensely personal narrative of the late classical singer Kumar Gandharva. Journeying between folk and classical music, between rural and urban expressions of Kabir, the film finds moments of both continuity and rupture between these disparate worlds.

• One Billion Eyes Documentary Film Festival, August 2008, Chennai, India
• World Performing Arts Festival, Nov, 2008, Lahore, Pakistan
• VIBGYOR International Film Festival, Feb, 2009, Thrissur, Kerala, India
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (as Juror's work), Nov 2009
• Dhaka International Documentary Festival, January 2010
• 3rd Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, June 2010
• Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Oct 2010

Kabira Khada Bazar Mein

Journeys with Sacred and Secular Kabir (Dur: 94 min) This film investigates the ironies and tensions between secular and sacred Kabir, interweaving the sacralization of Kabir by the Kabir Panth with the secular appropriation of the same poet by the activist group Eklavya. The story unfolds through the life of Prahlad Tipaniya, a Dalit singer whose participation in the Panth and Eklavya begins to raise difficult questions for him about ritual and organized religion.

• One Billion Eyes Documentary Film Festival, August 2008, Chennai, India
• World Performing Arts Festival, Nov, 2008, Lahore, Pakistan
• VIBGYOR International Film Festival, Feb, 2009, Thrissur, Kerala, India
• Film South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal, Sept 2009
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (as Juror’s work), Nov 2009
• 3rd Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, June 2010
• Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Oct 2010
• Telecast twice on NDTV-24/7 television channel, India