Indian, Pakistani: Why Two Women Felt Compelled To Make This Partition Documentary

Many people have asked me over the years how Surbhi Dewan and I came together to make A Thin Wall, an intensely personal film about the partition of India. Here is our story, recounted beautifully in Surbhi’s words.

No matter how similar we were, or how well we understood each other and how close our friendship was, the world would see us, first and foremost, through the lens of our nationalities – and how our nationalities had always been, and still were, at loggerheads with each other. But that is why it was important for us to be heard – an Indian and a Pakistani living a different reality, choosing to remember a time before the two nations were born, and to imagine a new narrative for the future. Our voice, no matter how feeble in comparison to the jingoistic media frenzy, had the right to be heard. So we trudged along – thinking, talking, listening, shooting, writing and sharing. More here.

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