Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)

Rakesh Sharma is an Indian documentary filmmaker. His most notable work is the feature-length documentary Final Solution (2003 film) on the communal 2002 Gujarat riots.

Final Solution (2003 film)

Sharma made waves with Final Solution, a documentary that presents the 2002 Gujarat riots as an anti-Muslim pogrom orchestrated by right-wing Hindu nationalists in Gujrat. Himself a Hindu, Sharma used primary sources — testimony from both victims and perpetrators — to allege that the state was complicit in the violence.

The film was initially denied a certification by the Censor Board of India in July 2011 over the alleged fears that it would incite violence.

The film was cleared by the Censor Board in October 2012, and went on to win the President's Indian National Film Award.

Other works

Rakesh Sharma's earlier film is the multiple award winning film Aftershocks: The Rough Guide to Democracy, a subaltern re-examination of the Narmada debate (Development at whose cost? For whose benefit?). Set in Kutch's lignite mining belt, the film probes democracy 'from below'.

In 2011, it was reported that Sharma was working on a film series dealing with Kandhamal, Mangalore, Mumbai terror attack, Malegaon and Gujarat.

2014 Modi video releases

In 2014 Rakesh released a number of video clips of Indian Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from his election speeches for the 2003 election. In these clips Modi appears to endorse the violence perpetrated against Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Rakesh stated that he were releasing the clips because Modi's early speeches had been gradually disappearing from online repositories due to a concerted whitewash campaign to improve Modi's image that could possibly be tarnished by his endorsements of the riots.[1]

References

https://vimeo.com/rakeshfilm

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