Summary:
more-inAnand Patwardhan sees his entire oeuvre, of films documenting religious fundamentalism, caste violence and people’s movements, as one long continuum. “I was making films against the Congress for many years because it was the party in power. The Emergency days led to the much acclaimed Prisoners of Conscience. They get made by looking at the material that I have gathered,” says Patwardhan, in an interview to The Hindu. Even when the Congress was in power, I had to go to the court to get these films shown on Doordarshan..