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I For India
2005
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy two Super-8 cameras, two projectors and two reel to reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For 40 years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back .. Read more
| Director | Sandhya Suri |
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| Genres | Documentary |
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I For India
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy two Super-8 cameras, two projectors and two reel to reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For 40 years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home-images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket-his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn, respond with their own 'cine-letters' telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life. As time passes and the planned return to India becomes an increasingly remote possibility, the joy and curiosity of the early exchanges give way to the darker reality of alienation, racism and a family falling apart. A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.
| Director | Sandhya Suri |
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| Studio | ICA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 10 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Documentary |
| Language | DVD: Hindi, English |
| Released | Production year: 2005 To Rent: DVD: 24 Mar 2008 |
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National Film School graduate Sandhya Suriâs delightful, seductive and deceptive documentary/home movie on her family... read more on Time Out
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This is good example of the effects migration has on an Indian family when their beloved son moves to England to further his training as a Dr.
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I absolutely love this film. It's a truly brilliant documentary / diary of the experiences of a lovely family arriving in England in the 1960's from ... read more »
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Found it quite boring really. Wasn't quite what I expected. I thought it could have been better portrayed, as there are a lot of simiular stories out there ... read more »
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This isn't a fun movie, but more of an amateur documentary about someone torn between staying on for his career and moving back to his loving family. Just ... read more »
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In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy two Super-8 cameras, two projectors and two reel to reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For 40 years he uses it to share his ...
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