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- Stories of the Anglo Indian community and its fraught future.
Directed by Sonata Gay Dkhar | 2015
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sonata Dkhar graduated in Mass Communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. She received the Panos South Asia Grant for Climate Change Reporting, to study the impact of coal mining in the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, during which time she co-directed the documentary, All Not Lost…The Pnar Story. Based in Shillong, she runs a production house.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_M....
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PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographers: Gautam Syiem, Dondor Lyngdoh
Sound Recordist: Vivek Das
Editor: Sonata Dkhar
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: June 2020 - Krátké a kreslené filmy
My English father married my Anglo-Indian mother in Agra in 1936. I was born in the Military Hospital, Secunderabad in January 1947 and arrived on the S.S. Samaria in Liverpool in July 1947 aged five months. I was fortunate enough to have an English grammar school education, although life in Northern England in the 50s and 60s was tough for us. It pains me to see the poverty some Anglo Indians suffer in India today. However, one thing is sure; the Anglos certainly know how to party and their love of a certain Scottish beverage will never diminish. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of going back to the church I was christened in, All Saints Trimulgherry, on Christmas Day. Many Anglo Indians were there. I also got to know the Moss family there and their mother, Rita,, which was a lovely experience. Thank you all in this film for keeping the Anglo Indian tradition alive!! May God bless you all.
What a wonderful insight into the past and present-day Anglo Indian culture. Lovely to see my Anglo Indian family still thriving in India. Sadly, the Anglo Indian culture is somewhat finite. But I continue the culture here in Scotland in my cooking and traits passed down from grand parents.
Thank you for the effort, lovely stories 🙏
Good to see you, Phillip, Fond memories of Christmas spent at 18 The Mall!
I've grown up with the Anglo Indians though I'm not one; but I find the presentation here is extremely graphic and accurate. The community is dwindling mostly because of the growing number of marriages with the locals.
ANGLO-INDIANS ARE A VERY SMALL COMMUNITY IN INDIA !!! HOWEVER, FAMOUS ANGLO-INDIANS AT THE MOVIES ------ MERLE OBERON , VIVIAN LEIGH, CLIFF RICHARDS ( Lucknow) ENGELBERT HUMPERDICK GERRY DORSEY (from Madras ). Juliet Prowse ( from Bombay now Mumbai) ( Elvis Presley's co- Star in G.I. BLUES) . FROM U.K.
Great documentary and beautiful music!
I found this really interesting. Thanks for posting.
It is rather sad to see this video. A once thriving community now scattered across the globe. Like the Parsis, the population is dwindling. But humans in general, have been on the move for centuries. Ask the average American their roots; they are usually mixed. It is not fair to just say one is Anglo Indian based on the father's lineage. Women also count. So if an Anglo Indian woman marries outside her community, her children should still be considered Anglo Indian. Nothing has changed as far as this outdated 1935 ruling. But for now, it is up to the younger generation to carry on the unique traditions that define an Anglo Indian and this can be several things. Mixed marriages will not necessarily wipe out the community as we have known it. After all there is only one human race...the human race.
THIS OBVIOUSLY A RACE THAT HAS NOT EVOLVED THROUGHOUT THE TIMES, HOWEVER, THEY SEEM HAPPY; POWER TO THESE PEOPLE !!!
Do you think that is perhaps a rather condescending statement? We are an adaptable ‘race’, which is one of two irrelevant and incorrect words you have employed. The other is ‘evolving’’. AI’s have fitted in seamlessly wherever in the world they dispersed to, while holding on to cherished customs, practises, and cuisine. The way people do. In India, AI’s are adapting to Indian ways, perhaps more slowly, which they didn’t feel necessary before the diaspora. We were as racist as the British, and experiencing racism from them, we should known better. Generally, we didn’t, and went along with the prevailing attitude of the times. It had as much to do with culture as it did with skin colour, and I had a relative by marriage, black as the ace of spades, who, paradoxically, was virulently racist. We are like any other people, just a little different. And multicoloured with it. Thank you for the good wishes though, and I hope I have helped with your appreciation of a vanishing sub-culture.