ABSTRACT
Pankaj Butalia is a documentary film-maker who happened to start his film career with When Hamlet Went to Mizoram (1990) about the unsuspected popularity of Hamlet in the 1980s in Mizoram, a north-eastern state of India. As he tells us, he stumbled upon this fortuitously and found Hamlet’s soliloquies being played on audio cassettes in the market place. Subsequently, he has made a number of films, one of which, Moksha (Salvation), won several national and international awards. Recently he has done a trilogy of documentaries on Manipur, Kashmir and Assam, border areas with endemic violence.
