Buru Gaara

The poignant stories of Dayamani Birla and Nirmala Putul, speaking truth to power and reclaiming tribal identity through self-expression. National Award Winner and screened at festivals in Helsinki, Berlin, Kathmandu, Delhi, Madurai, Indore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai and Madurai.
Directed by Shriprakash | 2008
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Shriprakash is a filmmaker and activist working primarily in Jharkhand. He has directed several documentary films that have won awards at the Earth Vision Film Festival, Tokyo, Thunderbird Film Festival, USA, and Film Southasia, Kathmandu. He was awarded the Special Filmmaker Award at Black International Cinema, Berlin.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see en.wikipedia.o....
PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, www.civilsocie..., psbt.org/wp-co..., www.thehindu.c..., psbt.org/wp-co...)
PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographer: Sanjay Kumar
Editors: Vikram, Shriprakash
Narrators: Siddharth Ray
Music Composers: Lalu Shankar, Bisun Munda
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: May 2020