Dreams of a 6 Figure Salary

The state of higher education and its privatisation in India. Screened at Thiruvananthapuram.
Directed by Sumit Khanna | 2009
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Sumit Khanna is a two time National Award winner. He started his career as an assistant to directors Aziz Mirza, Saeed Mirza and Meghna Gulzar on various feature films and documentaries. His first independent documentary was on the lives of assistant directors in the Mumbai film industry. He was the associate producer on the acclaimed film Parzania.
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....
PSBT was a not-for-profit that has nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, www.civilsocietyonline.com/ci..., psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2..., www.thehindu.com/features/cin..., psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2...)
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
Cinematographer: Rajashree Sengupta
Editor: Tushar Ghogale
Sound Recordist: Asheesh Pandya
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with Doordarshan India.
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Last updated: June 2020

[@arpitpgupta]

A very genuine take on current situation of Indian education system.... This system needs a huge change in to for a better India

[@rabtag396]

good job. hope the people in higher ups of the govt sees it. still relevant stuff.