partitions

  • April 2021
  • 16mins

  • Documentary
  • 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.