Rajesh S. Jala

Películas

The Spark
Director
Film director Kabir comes to Varanasi, the most sacred site of Hinduism that has existed since BC, with a camera. Kabir begins to photograph two people: Durga, one of the workers at the crematorium on the banks of the Ganges, and Amman, who has come to Varanasi to await death in order to break the chain of reincarnation.
23 Winters
Writer
A film set in reality, played by a real protagonist, Bota, who lives a surreal life. A forced refugee from Kashmir, Bota is schizophrenic. This film glimpses through his traumatic past which haunts his exiled present. Nonetheless, his hopes are unvanquished.
23 Winters
Director
A film set in reality, played by a real protagonist, Bota, who lives a surreal life. A forced refugee from Kashmir, Bota is schizophrenic. This film glimpses through his traumatic past which haunts his exiled present. Nonetheless, his hopes are unvanquished.
At the Stairs
Director
The portrait of a woman who, after her husband’s death, travels to the holy city of Banares in order to live out her days and achieve moksha, the final release from the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation. The ghats, a set of stairs leading down to the Ganges River, are the site of religious ceremonies. Being cremated here ensures an end to samsara.
Children of the Pyre
Cinematography
This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in Banaras.
Children of the Pyre
Director
This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in Banaras.
Floating Lamp of the Shadow Valley
Director
Once compared with heaven, now a land eclipsed by a dark and terrible cloud. As Arif floats aloft this swamp of despair, Kashmir too is taking its first unsteady steps to emerge from a shadow of doom, with a tentative semblance of peace between the two Nations in recent times.