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I For India

Description: Fascinating documentary shedding light on the experiences of an Indian family arriving in Darlington in 1965. Created by intercutting home movies, filmed by the director's father Yash and by relatives back in India on Super-8 cameras, I For India becomes an intimate and revealing portrait of clashing cultures and beliefs, and an extended family struggling to adjust to new customs.



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Dir: Sandhya Suri.

Country: UK.

Year: 2005.

Duration: 70mins

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One flavour of India

I for India
The bittersweet documentary is based on 40 years of journal footage

By Derek Malcolm
2 Aug 2007


In 1965, Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK. He then bought two Super 8 cameras, two projectors and two reelto-reel recorders.

One set he sent to his family in India, the other he kept for himself. They exchanged images for some 40 years - but his planned return did not go well and the close-knit family gradually tore itself apart.

Sandhya Suri's documentary is about cultural identity, family obligations and whether you can ever belong quite where you think if you leave one continent for another.

The film is intriguing, moving and relevant. It's a bit scrappy at times perhaps, but the lack of slickness often does it a favour.

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