Director

Uma Chakravarty

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 2197569

Known for: Directing

Gender: Female

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Career span: 2015 - 2019

Years active: 5

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Biography

Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian turned filmmaker. She has taught history to many generations of women students and been associated with the women's movement and the movement for democratic rights. She has co-authored Delhi Riots: Three days in the Life of a Nation and published books on Buddhism, Caste and Gender, among others. Deeply rooted in history, memory and the archive, her first film A Quiet Little Entry explored the plight of women’s lives during the National Movement, while Fragments of a Past revolves around a political activist who does not remember her own past.

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