Reality Check

Documentary Film Screening

An NCPA Presentation in collaboration with Cinema Collective

The Reality Check film series promotes and encourages documentary filmmakers in India, whose work reflects life and culture in the country today in a provocative blend of creativity and integrity.

Kaifinama – A film by Sumantra Ghosal
Urdu/English (90 mins)

Kaifinama looks at the life and art of the Urdu Progressive poet Kaifi Azmi, who supported social change and was one of the foremost lyricists in the Hindi film industry. Not content to limit himself to literary writing, he worked ceaselessly throughout his life as a catalyst for change among the disenfranchised.

The film looks at his small-town roots, his commitment to socialism, his wide-ranging body of work and the enormous changes he brought to the life of the village where he was born.

This extraordinary journey is documented through extensive interviews with him and his wife Shaukat Kaifi as well as insights from his children, Shabana and Baba Azmi, and reminiscences by his friends and colleagues.

Kaifinama thus is both the definitive film biography of Kaifi Azmi and a history of the times he illuminated with his genius.

A Cinematix Production
Produced by Mijwan Welfare Society
Directed by Sumantra Ghosal

The film screening will be followed by a discussion.

Admission on a first-come-first-served basis. NCPA Members will get preferential seating till 6.20 pm