Jun 19 2026 to Jun 19 2026 6:30 p.m.

Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

77 minutes | Hindi, English, Tamil and Kannada with English subtitles | 2025 | India

This documentary traces the women’s movements in India over four decades: their resistance to violence, their challenges to caste and patriarchal tradition, and the legal and social changes they fought for and won. Spanning regions and communities across the country, the film captures the vibrancy of their leaders, the urgency of the movements and the impact on all our lives.

The screening will be followed by a conversation between the director, Uma Chakravarti and researcher-filmmaker, Madhu Bhushan. The session will conclude with an audience Q&A.

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Speakers

Uma Chakravarti
Film Director
Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian, teacher and filmmaker. She began to make films inspired by the visual potential of a most unusual archive, a tin trunk with its holdings of paper, notes, receipts, photographs, lists of books to be reading assorted such memorabilia as well as letters. A woman who spent her life in the salt pans, Uma was barred from joining the movement for independence through patriarchal and caste based restrictions: an experience that jolted her into becoming a filmmaker. Since then, she has made eight films dwelling on politics, loss of memory, uncovered histories, incarceration and movements for change.

Madhu Bhushan
Feminist Activist, Researcher & Filmmaker
An independent activist- (re)searcher and very occasional film maker, Madhu Bhushan has earlier worked with the CIEDS Collective and Vimochana until 2014; more than three decades. She has been involved with crisis intervention, community outreach, campaigns and advocacy with a focus on rural and tribal communities. Currently associated with Gamana Women’s Collective, a feminist collective, she is also engaged with various networks and organisations working on human rights and social justice including rights of sex workers, trans communities and Adivasis.