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Original Name: Nero’s Guest
English Name: Nero’s Guest
Year: 2010
Run Time: 57 mins
Language: English
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: India
Director: Deepa Bhatia
DOP: Amol Gole, Atul Hirde, Likka Vekhalti, R.V. Ramani, Shanti Bhushan
Editor: Deepa Bhatia, Abhro Banerjee
Sound Designer: P.M. Sateesha
Deepa Bhatia is a film editor who has worked on several Bollywood films since 1998. She has directed the documentary Nero’s Guests, which won two awards at Mumbai IFF.
Nero’s Guest is a story of Indias' agrarian crisis and the growing inequality seen through the work of P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of ‘The Hindu’. Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India over the last 10 years but the mainstream media hardly reflects this. Through sustained coverage of the Farm crisis, Sainath and his colleagues have created the national agenda and thus, compelled a government in denial to take notice and act. In a sense it is also a story of P.Sainath, who through his writings and lectures, tries to make us see the real India.
