Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait

'Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait', 2017

Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has ...

Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has ...

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Avani Rai

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55 minutes

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Feature

Genre

Documentary

Keywords

india, photographer, photograph, reference to mother teresa, reference to dalai lama

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Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait

Avani Rai, 2017

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Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has ...

Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has witnessed the transformation of India. An Unframed Portrait builds a historical narrative through Raghu Rai's photographs through time, as he tells some of his unique experiences that not only affected him deeply, but as important landmarks in the young yet crucial history of India. Raghu Rai has not only covered the life of the very ordinary Indians in cities and villages, during their sorrow and joy, but also the Bangladesh war and its liberation, the fall of the Soviet Union, turbulences in Kashmir, state of emergency 1975 under Indira Gandhi's reign - where his team was put in jail for not censoring their work, and also the death of Indira Gandhi and Mother Teresa, death of Pakistan's president Zia Ul Haq, Mother Teresa being awarded the bharat ratna, and many other historical events. Raghu Rai's ...

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Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has ...

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Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has witnessed the transformation of India. An Unframed Portrait builds a historical narrative through Raghu Rai's photographs through time, as he tells some of his unique experiences that not only affected him deeply, but as important landmarks in the young yet crucial history of India. Raghu Rai has not only covered the life of the very ordinary Indians in cities and villages, during their sorrow and joy, but also the Bangladesh war and its liberation, the fall of the Soviet Union, turbulences in Kashmir, state of emergency 1975 under Indira Gandhi's reign - where his team was put in jail for not censoring their work, and also the death of Indira Gandhi and Mother Teresa, death of Pakistan's president Zia Ul Haq, Mother Teresa being awarded the bharat ratna, and many other historical events. Raghu Rai's ...

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Avani Rai

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Raghu Rai

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Avani Rai

Screenwriter

Iikka Vehkalahti

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