Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)

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Rakesh Sharma is an Indian documentary film-maker, based in Goa. His most notable work is the feature-length documentary Final Solution on the communal Gujarat riots of 2002.

Final Solution

Main article: Final Solution (2003 film)

Sharma made waves with Final Solution, a documentary that presents the 2002 Gujarat riots as an anti-Muslim pogrom orchestrated by right-wing Hindu nationalists in Gujarat. Himself a Hindu, Sharma used primary sources — testimony from both victims and perpetrators — to allege that the state was complicit in the violence.

The film was initially denied a certification by the Censor Board of India in July 2004 over the fears that would incite violence with its inflammatory content. For this reason, it was rejected as an entry at the Mumbai International Film Festival in 2004. It went on to win two awards at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival (2004).[1] The film was the first Indian film to be awarded the Wolfgang Staudte Award, and it also won the Special Jury Award at the festival.[2] The film was cleared by the Censor Board in October 2004, and went on to win the President's Indian National Film Award.

Other works

Rakesh Sharma's earlier film is the multiple award winning film Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to Democracy, a subaltern re-examination of the Narmada debate (Development at whose cost? For whose benefit?). Set in Kutch's lignite mining belt, the film probes democracy 'from below'.

In 2011, it was reported that Sharma was working on a film series dealing with Kandhamal, Mangalore, Mumbai terror attack, Malegaon and Gujarat.

References

  1. ↑ THE HINDU Tuesday, 17 February 2004
  2. ↑ THE TIMES OF INDIA 17 February 2004

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