The G5A cultural centre in Mumbai has organised an Anand Patwardhan retrospective between October 2 and 5. The programme – featuring 10 out of his 13 documentaries and two short films – covers the breadth of the 75-year-old filmmaker’s thematic concerns over five decades , including human rights, majoritarianism, hyper-nationalism, casteism, ecological damage and protest movements.

Patwardhan hasn’t just consistently held a mirror to injustice, but also explored its possible roots as well as the ways in which it can be countered. He has frequently faced censorship, fighting battles in the courts and beyond to ensure that his films can be seen by the public.

Patwardhan’s first-full length documentary was Waves of Revolution (1974), about the Bihar Movement steered by Jayaprakash Nar

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