India is one of the most documented and simultaneously most underrepresented countries on earth. The sheer scale of what happens here daily, across geographies, languages, communities, and contradictions, exceeds the capacity of any single storytelling tradition to contain it. And yet, when you look at the landscape of documentary filmmaking in India, you find the same territories being mapped again and again, while vast stretches of lived experience remain almost entirely in

A few weeks ago, our team packed up, again and again, five times in one month. Five cities. Five different stories. Five sets of people who had never met us before and, by the end of a single day, were sharing things they hadn't planned to share. This isn't a piece about the films themselves. It's about what that month did to us, and to the way I think about this work.

Most corporate film companies in India don’t make documentaries. Most documentary filmmakers have not taken take corporate briefs. The two worlds rarely meet, and when they do, it is usually treated as a stylistic choice. A “documentary-style” corporate film, as the industry likes to call it, often just means handheld cameras, natural light and lack of budget.