SAFAR is a tale of the Asian Diaspora. It is a moving account of a man’s dream to resettle in his native India after a period of almost 40 years in England and his meditation, in old age, of how he came to lose his home. Yash Pal Suri arrived in Britain in the mid sixties as a young doctor, hoping to gain further qualifications and return home to a better life in India a few years later. However, a few years soon turned into many. Uniquely, he meticulously documented his changing experiences of emigration in the form of Super 8 movies and audio commentaries, which he would send to his relatives back in India. They in turn would respond with their own ‘cine-letters’, prompting Yash to tell more about his life abroad.
