SYNOPSIS
Do you make your terms? Do you come to terms? This film works with material of the everyday, scraps of cloth, needle thread and the timbre of human voices to explore these questions. The scraps of cloth animate the grain of the voices and tell a story, from the ground, of the many choices women make when faced with domestic violence.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The film, Kyaa Hai Ye Samjhauta has taken form from many generous sharings, The generous sharing by the case workers themselves, their recordings, their notes, informed the doll making. Nirantar, which has worked alongside the case workers, shared their wonderful documentary material. Young artists and film practitioners, based in Mumbai, and later, another small one in Delhi, let out diverse expressions and worked hard, helping the work to gather its shapes, to push and grow As though reflecting these different ways of coming together, this work was able to gather diverse forms, diverse voices and people, in the very manner of its making. My work also consisted of letting it all in- documentary and fiction, dolls and human voices, embroidery and camera images.