Documentary filmmaker Rakesh Sharma. , Photo Credit: SR Praveen
Facing communal violence in his neighborhood in Mumbai in 1992, Rakesh Sharma’s first instinct was to organize a relief camp, which he and his friends fled to Jogeshwari for almost a year, until new houses were built for the victims. He also gave legal aid, to register an FIR and get compensation. But a decade later, when he saw the 2002 Gujarat riots, he knew that he would have to intervene as a filmmaker. Was born this way the final solutionOne of the seminal works of Indian documentary film production.
“It was my effort in intervention, a predecessor that I was shouting from the roofs that if we do not investigate such communal politics, it is going to destroy social taunts. We have seen what happened in an interview in an interview in an interview in an interview in an interview in an interview that after that and after that in 23 years,” Mr. Sharma said in an interview in an interview. Hindu During the 17th international documentary and short film festival of Kerala (IDSFK), where he is being awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Initially, he could not handle what was seen at the Shah Alam Relief Camp in Ahmedabad, the shooting with him was overwhelmed by a day, which happened was overwhelmed by his scale and nature.
“I was not a stranger for communal violence, but what happened in Gujarat was on another scale, such as another face of organized violence was brought into the kahoots with the state, not only vigilance, but the police and the state were working with vigilance. In a few weeks, a terrible kind of political instincts were triggered in me and we were trying to make me a film that we had a fierce. Had to intervene as a manufacturer, ”he says.
After starting his career to help Shyam Benegal in filming India’s Discovery (India is a discovery)He says that he did “eight -year corporate slavery” to buy his freedom. The work he did in launching the channel V and later Star Plus in a way was funded to create his documentary in a way. “So, people like Rupert Murdoch have ended funding the final solution“He takes a pinch.
While their documentary Aftershock The first person was narrated, the final solution There is no voiceover. This is a sequence after speaking on camera after the sequence of victims of Gujarat riots and criminals, which is associated with the riots and speeches of Gaurav Yathara’s riot under the leadership of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other union Parivar leaders.
“This was a deliberate option not to use the voiceover, because then people focus on the kind of words that are being used. I have been told by people everywhere that the film is balanced, because I am showing the victims and criminals. As a filmmaker, as a filmmaker, I know it is anything, but it is a very specific point.
Mr. Sharma says that he did not want to promote the singers or fundamentalists. He wanted to target the majority that are unclear or indifferent or just busy earning a living or victims of misinformation and propagation. “To talk to this 80%, I had to build in such a way that the story was coming in front of them so that they could assess for themselves in their mind and create an opinion,” they say.
For the question of how difficult it would be to make a film the final solution Now – Based on many communal erupting ups from recent years – Mr. Sharma says, “You will need navigational skills in these hostile struggle areas. I will not be able to do so because I am subject to WhatsApp campaigns, recognized and facing different types of dangers. Every evening every evening.
Published – August 24, 2025 08:59 PM IST
