Under Construction - UC Films

A tapestry that weaves fiction and non-fiction, coming, going, returning, staying, to tell a story of many Mumbais.

30 years ago, during the Liberation War for Bangladesh, Gurudasi Mondol had lost her entire family. Her indomitable presence as a feared and loved crazy woman today, asks many questions: what is the meaning of Liberation? Has madness chosen her, or has she chosen madness?

The story of a Mullah who established a false shrine in a remote village in Bangladesh.

Four women speak about the circumstances leading to their rootlessness, revealing an intimate dimension of the Kashmir conflict.

Risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.

The film shows how the Burmese military regime used a ceasefire agreement to further oppress Karen people, while encroaching further onto Karen lands.

A hapless filmmaker and his two local guides explore the conflict surrounding the Vedanta mines in Orissa.

Old, blind Wannihami knowingly digs up his son’s sealed coffin in order to invalidate the compensation claim. For his greater purpose is to believe that war cannot kill his son.

The heroic efforts of Nandigram’s people to protect their land from being taken away in the name of industrialisation and development.

Dharavi, India’s biggest slum, is to be knocked down, changing the lives of up to a million people forever.

A critical view of the role of western media in selling war and blood, especially after 9-11.

The film seeks to disseminate the pains and penury, the anger and resoluteness of the sufferers of erosion.

A concise, moving account of a long forgotten people – Bhutani refugees who have lived in Nepali camps for over a decade and half, and still wait.

A stark reminder that peace has not yet come for those directly affected by Nepal’s 11-year conflict.

How large scale tourism impacts on the economy, ecology and culture of the hosts.

The situation in Guatemala today after a peace accord between guerrillas and the government.

54 prisoners of the Indo-Pak war never came home. As their families still wait, they walk the tragic tightrope between hope and despair.

How the process of planning and development works by excluding, if necessary by force, the poor and the marginalized.

From Kashmir, a provocative look at Indian democracy; a reflection on power, resistance and “freedom’s terrible thirst”.

Conflict of ideologies on opening a contemporary Madrassa after 26-11, between NRI Abraham and TV Journalist Maria when both share common dream of educating Poor Muslims.