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.

A peek into the world of street entrepreneurs, who lead their lives in the shadow of constant threat.

A film on the troubles and travails of the traditional marine fisher folk from Andhra.

A rustic road show, Mundapota – the son buries his head in the ground while his father beats the drum, thrilled viewers applaud; but what happens in the darkness that engulfs him in the pit?

The intricate connections between the land, people, animals and food; an incisive look at policies that are dismantling these organic linkages, resulting in an artificial separation of livestock and agriculture.

One cactus stands between hope and hunger – Hoodia, a cactus used by Bushmen for centuries, has caught the attention of a giant pharmaceutical company.

A terrible saga of exploitation that celebrates the victory of innocence over the most harrowing realities of life.

A series of three films that explores the diverse cultures of work in Bangalore’s software outsourcing industry.

Certain groups of people who still work with natural dyes and whose livelihoods depend on it.

Gender politics in biodiversity conservation with policy implications.

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.

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

Sellers crowd India’s inter-state bus terminals, selling wares as variegated as their own life stories.

The debate – between the Forest Department and the Van Gujjars.

The Catholic Arundhatiyars of Dharmanathapuram, traditional shoemakers, grow increasingly assailed between caste discrimination and competition from the shoe manufacturing industry.

Notes from the lives of three extraordinary women: a graveyard worker, a funeral singer, a fisher woman.

Farmers’ suicides in Moonak & Lehra blocks in the southern dry zone of Punjab’s Sangrur district.

This film explores the lives of the people of Jari Mari, and records the many changes in the nature and organisation of Mumbai’s workforce over the past two decades.

The film examines livelihood and survival issues of forest dependent communities against the backdrop of this destruction of a fragile and versatile ecosystem in the Western Ghats region, and State interventions towards Joint Forest Management, funded by multi-lateral aid agencies.

‘Majma’ explores the instability of working class lives and its impact on male sexuality and gender relations.