Anand Patwardhan’s Toronto Selection ‘The World Is Family’ Combines the Personal and the Political
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Anand Patwardhan, the doyen of Indian documentary filmmaking, will premiere his new film, “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (“The World Is Family”) at the Toronto Film Festival.
The film focuses on Patwardhan’s parents and close family members and juxtaposes Mahatma Gandhi and the history of India’s independence movement with contemporary times. “As my parents began to age, I began filming to preserve their memory for myself but had no intention to make a film as such.
I filmed from the late 1990s till they passed away in 2008 and 2010, respectively. By this time I was also talking to my father’s younger brother and oral history about India’s freedom struggle had begun to emerge.
In all, the filming process lasted around 20 years. Then during the COVID-19 lockdown, I began to edit my home movie material and realized that it could be valuable for others too,” Patwardhan told Variety.
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