Prisoner No. 626710 is Present: A Film by Lalit Vachani

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | 14:30 to 16:30 | Keele Campus, York University

Screening and Q&A with the Director

Prisoner No. 626710 is Present (Kaidi No. 626710 Haazir Hai)/ कैदी नंबर 626710 हाज़िर है) A prison inmate waits interminably for a bail hearing in court. Meanwhile, two friends who await his release, reminisce and discuss the events and the circumstances that led to his arrest. Watch the film’s trailer at this link.

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Lalit Vachani is a documentary filmmaker, lecturer and research scholar at CeMIS (the Centre for Modern Indian Studies) at the University of Göttingen. His documentaries include In Searcho f Gandhi (2007) and The Salt Stories (2009)which follow the trail of Gandhi's salt march in Narendra's Modi's Gujarat; The Play Goes On(2005) on the leftist street theatre group, Jana Natya Manch; An Ordinary Election (2015), an in-depth study of an Indian election campaign by anew political party – the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party);and The Boy in the Branch (1993) and The Men in the Tree (2002) which document the ideology and the growth of the RSS and Hindu nationalism.

This South Asia Lecture Series 2024–25: Demos, Democracy, Democratization event is co-presented by the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University.  

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