Madhu Purnima Kishwar - Documentary Films and Media Work

Documentary Films and Media Work

Madhu Purnima Kishwar has produced several documentary films on subjects of social cause:

  • The Manas Series for Doordarshan was shown on the national channel.
  • Dowry: Compulsion vs. Need. The social and economic dynamics behind the spread of the culture of dowry despite stringent legislation.
  • The Disinheritance of Women from Family Property.
  • Liquor and State Policy: Why Anti-Liquor Movements Inevitably Turn Anti-State.
  • Governmental Controls on Agriculture and the Increasing Rural-Urban Divide being promoted through our Farm Policy.
  • License Permit Raj: a View from Below (Study of street vendors and rickshaw pullers in Delhi).
  • The Pauperization of our Traditional Technologists and Artisans.
  1. Researched, scripted and anchored a prime-time programme called News Watch on the Doodarshan Channel.
  2. Under the Agenda for India series commissioned by the national television channel Doordarshan she made thirteen episodes entitled “Kisse Kanoon Ke” reviewing the actual workings and impact of various laws enacted ostensibly to protect or strengthen women’s rights in India.
  3. Conceptualized and anchored a series of youth programmes entitled Baazgasht for the Srinagar Kendra of Doordarshan in 2006.
  4. Kishwar has also written and set to music a cassette of songs on women’s issues entitled Manushi Geet. Some of these were used in a street play entitled Roshni created as a group effort by Manushi’s performance team under the direction of Feisal Alkazi.

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