Banner : Cinema Vision India

Writer / Director : Ramchandra PN

Cameraman : Anil Kumar CJ, Mehboob Ahmedabadi

Editor : Raosaheb Pradhan, Devendra Dandekar

Sound : Javed, Prakash Shinde. Joyce Thomas

Producer : Siddarth Kak

We look at the culture, practices and lifestyle of the erstwhile nomadic community of the Banjaras in one of their settled colonies, called ‘Thandas’, in a village near Yavathmal, Maharashtra, India through the eyes of Atmaram Kaniram Rathod – a rebel writer belonging to the community.

This film was a part of a series of films on ancient Indian wisdom that Siddarth Kak produced for the Ford Foundation. This film was shot for over a year and a half and the journey during this period was for me a process of sensitization of such marginal communities like the Banjaras.