The West loves simple stories about India. Leena Yadav doesn’t. The acclaimed filmmaker behind Parched (2015) and House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (2021) joins Dilpreet Taggar to dissect where India’s bold feminist cinema has gone and why one of the world’s most complex countries refuses to fit a single story.
Leena Yadav was in Australia for the National Indian Film Festival of Australia (NIFFA), where she received the Nishtha Award (Sincerity & Dedication to Cinema).
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