For the last three decades, Saba Dewan has been one of most
prominent voices in the sphere of documentary cinema in India. An alumnus of
the Mass Communication Research Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia, she started in
the late 1980s. Her first two films, Dharmayuddha (Holy War,
1989) and Nasoor (Festering Wound, 1991) responded to the rise of
communal politics. Later works like Khel (The Play, 1994) and Sita’s
Family (2001) document women’s experiences and narratives in deeply
personal w
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is a PhD research scholar at the Department of Women and Gender Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her research interests are documentary cinema, new media and gender.
