Hommage to Rahul Roy

DELHI-MUMBAI-DELHI

Rahul Roy, Saba Dewan
India 2003 | 43 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU

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 in search of work and a future. Riya’s future is unpre­dictable and the present is marked with its own dif­fi­cul­ties. The police harass her family in Delhi, there is con­stant pres­sure from her agent in Mumbai to attract more tips and the work itself is demand­ing. How­ev­er, there are other girls to have fun with, there is money to dress well and then there are men…admirers promis­ing the moon. The doc­u­men­tary is an inti­mate por­trait of the every­day in the life of the girls, their agents and the neigh­bour­hood. DELHI-MUMBAI-DELHI, shot in the back­drop of the Maha­rash­tra Gov­ern­ments’ con­tro­ver­sial move to ban girls from danc­ing in beer bars. 

MAJMA – Performance

Rahul Roy
India 2001 | 54 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
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 … read more

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL
(SUNDER NAGARI )

Rahul Roy
India 2003 | 43 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
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

WHEN FOUR FRIENDS MEET
(JAHAAN CHAR YAAR MIL JAAYEIN)

Rahul Roy
India 2000 | 43 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
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