22 minutes | 2025
A film by Panchsheel Gaikwad
Developed as part of the MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film, UCL
Set in present-day London, this poetic short unfolds as a direct address to Dr B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian freedom fighter and caste abolitionist whose ideas continue to resonate across generations. Through conversations with his mother about her intercaste marriage and the estrangement that followed, the filmmaker searches for a language of love within social structures that still enforce hierarchy. Grounded in family memory and the city spaces Ambedkar once inhabited, the film traces how the past continues to shape the present through private histories and the enduring, often unnoticed persistence of caste.