Fakirani Jatts of Kachchh: Neither here nor there

A still from the film, So Heddan So HoddanFilmmakers Anjali Monteiro, 56, and KP Jayasankar, 59, say they will not be too surprised if the audience gets a tad restless at first during the screening of their Kachchhi documentary, So Heddan So Hoddan (Like Here Like There) at the NCPA in Mumbai this week.The film moves at a pace most would consider leisurely, much like its subject, the Fakirani Jatt community in Kachchh, Gujarat. The documentary has 20-second-long-shots, for instance, of a

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