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DOCUMENTARY

SABIHA SUMAR, Filmmaker

At the time the seedlings of Sabiha’s documentary Azmaish were sown, she was already shooting in Pakistan trying to capture the social reaction to the ‘political climate’. “But then, when India found its new Prime Minister in Narendra Modi, and Nawaz Sharif came back to power in Pakistan to a political situation where the Taliban was now a palpable threat, I realised how many changes that heralded for India as well,” she says. Ergo, the first bubbling conceptualisation of the Kalki Koechlin-starrer Azmaish