Hommage to Rahul Roy

Riya dances in the beer bars of Mumbai to make a living. The doc­u­men­tary fol­lows her from her home in Delhi to Mumbai where hun­dreds of work­ing class girls come … read more

What does ”being a man” mean in present-day India? A fast grow­ing nation that changes its appear­ance daily and chal­lenges its people to meet their ends. Here, sur­vival means: to adapt, to pull through and to fight for one’s iden­ti­ty. Majma takes a blunt look at how the per­cep­tion of male­ness has changed in Indian soci­ety and impres­sive­ly high­lights the lives of two Indian men whose attempts to comply with their per­cep­tion of man­li­ness could not be more dif­fer­ent: The first world describes a wrestling master with a tra­di­tion­al con­cep­tion of the male life and does not only fulfil the attrib­ut­es relat­ed to his notion but also con­sid­ers them to be nec­es­sary and cor­rect. In the other world the audi­ence meets a some­what melan­cholic char­ac­ter: a man in his mid-thir­ties who earns a living by ”sell­ing” his knowl­edge about male sex­u­al­i­ty on the market. Two sto­ries about the present-day male Indian and thus two con­cep­tions: one of tra­di­tion and one of confrontation. 

Dis­creet­ly and qui­et­ly the Indian film­mak­er enters the liveli­hood of two fam­i­lies who live in SUNDER NAGRI – the ”beau­ti­ful city”, one of the out­skirts of Delhi char­ac­ter­ized by high … read more

A work­ing class dis­trict on the out­skirts of Delhi is home to four ”best friends”, Bunty, Kamal, Sanjay and Sanju, who were accom­pa­nied by the film­mak­er Rahul Roy over six … read more