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A writer and award-winning filmmaker, Deepa Dhanraj has been actively involved in the women's movement – with a focus on political participation, health, and education – for more than four decades.
The filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj follows several cases, shining a light on how the women’s Jamaat has acquired power through both communal education and the leaders’ persistent, tenacious and compassionate investigation of the crimes.
Aug 13, 2014 · Deepa Dhanraj is a filmmaker and feminist whose extensive filmography spans issues of gender, labour, education and women’s position in Indian society.
- Shweta Kishore
Deepa Dhanraj is one of the most renowned and highly regarded Indian documentary filmmakers, who has been directing and producing films since the eighties. Her legendary works include “Something Like a War,” “We Haven’t Come Here to Die,” “The Legacy of Malthus,”
Feb 18, 2021 · Deepa Dhanraj’s Ye Kya Hua Is Sheher Ko? (1986) pioneered a kind of documentary filmmaking that developed more distinctly over the coming decades with a host of films by Anand Patwardhan, Rakesh Sharma and the likes, which presented painstaking autopsies of communal violence.
Aug 4, 2023 · Deepa Dhanraj's debut docu 'Kya hua is shahar ko?' (1984) on religious riots in Hyderabad still relevant today. She formed Yugantar Film Collective to make films on women's...
Deepa Dhanraj’s films are decolonial feminism in action. A filmmaker whose intersectional view of gender oppression and collaborative approach to documentary were far ahead of their time, Dhanraj has dealt frankly with issues of class, caste, labor, patriarchy, and state violence over the course ...
