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    Character Counts: Global fame for Indian documentaries also spotlights filmmaker-subject disputes

    Kartiki Gonsalves & Guneet Monga

    Synopsis

    For a documentary filmmaker, navigating the relationship with the subject is a complex, delicate task, even more so when there is a disparity in the power dynamic. While questions over where and how to draw ethical boundaries are not new, what has changed is the global spotlight on Indian documentary films.

    Some years ago, while Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa were working on their national award-winning documentary Katiyabaaz, they suddenly hit an impasse: one of the characters, who had earlier given them access and candid footage, sent them a legal notice on how she was being represented.“We went to her, had conversations about representation and our intentions—and nothing further happened,” says Kakkar. Katiyabaaz, their documentary on
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