partitions
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16mins
Directed by
Vishal Daryanomel,
Starring
Gunwanti M Mahtani,
Padu M Mahtani,
Hla Kyawt May,
Partitions draws on photographs, state documents, audio recordings and footage of domestic spaces and routines, to tell a story of Sindhi migration following the Partition of India in 1947. Inspired by the life of a woman who was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, grew up in Madras (Chennai) and lived the rest of her life as a Singaporean, the film juxtaposes fragmented recollections of the past with enduring practices of the present.