Under Construction - UC Films

This is the filmmaker’s journey through the alleys of development, cutting across multi ethno-cultural routes, tracing the disconnect, what lies behind the information hole.

Story of a school teacher and her attempts to reform the education system.

A film on forest, forest dwellers and forest rights.

A real life story of transition; an ancient civilization being invaded and obliterated by the modern democracy.

A film predicting the disasterous impact of the Tehri Dam.

A film about the swimming ponds of Hampstead Heath, the campaign to keep them open and the national campaign for the right to swim.

A documentary film on adult/community perceptions of present day currents and challenges in primary school education.

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

A chronicle of the passage of seasons over scattered habitations tucked amidst Himalayan frontiers between India and Tibet, mapped by historic facts and fantastic tales.

The changing cityscape of Delhi in the wake of the Commonwealth Games of 2010; a map of it’s long term environmental footprint on the city.

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.

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

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

Dialogues With Children that interplays the experiences of children from government schools in tribal India to mainstream progressive schools and alternate schools for dropout children, and explores their expectations and pain, hopes and aspirations.

The people of the Garhwal Himalayas fight to keep their way of life.

The control and misuse of power undermine the affirmative action of reservations, revealed through the experiences of low caste women panchayat candidates in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh.

A documentary film on the tragedy in Nandigram.

Who pays the price when a capital city like New Delhi transforms into a glistening metropolis, with no space for the embarrassment of the poor and their slums, or the ugly shadow they cast over Delhi’s glistening self-image?

When tourism becomes a destructive invader.