Wanted to share our film on Assam for Al Jazeera International (AJ). It’s been a while but the topic errupted yesterday when I was narrating our filming experience to a journalist friend. The Indian Army & the Intelligence gave us a pretty hard time throughout our journey in Assam. Hmm. We finally managed to film it. Just us two ladies and of course our driver. Three person crew. Btw, The film had to go on one name and Hazel having more experience was selected but like I care. Assam’s situation has been shown for the first time in AJ. Jobs’ done!
I understand it’s a grim subject . Assam is much more stable today than it was 5 years ago but we city dewellers shouldnt forget that prople are still suffering. My heart goes out to the people in the remote corners of Assam who have faced the unrest till date. All said and done, if we don’t tell our own stories, WHO WILL???
(Part 1 of the film below)
(Part 2 of our film) -
There were a lot of conspiracy going on while we were filming this documentary in Assam. Why would AL Jazeera be suddenly interested in Assam? Laden’s “so called spy’s “ are here. It gave us a bit of a laugh and I was in the papers for all the wrong reasons until I directly went to the required personal and levelled things up. After that it was a smooth ride...well ,sort of!
But the truth is, It took me six months to convince Al Jazeera to bring Assam’s Unrest to the world audience. My last pitch that worked was: Our men, women and children are also dying. Both rebels as well as armed force families have been effected and suffered. Do you mean they are not worthy enough of your TV slot? There has been unrest there for more than 30 years and you only concentrate on the middle east and Afghanistan. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Part 2:
1 comment:
you have done a great job al jajeera.
my heartful thanks to you. indian occupational forces is still exploiting the poor people of assam and its natural resources. one day they will suffer.
an assamese
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