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While We Watched (titled नमस्कार मैं रवीश कुमार, or Greetings, I am Ravish Kumar in Hindi) is a 2022 Indian documentary film by Vinay Shulka, profiling the NDTV news editor Ravish Kumar's resolute journalistic independence in the backdrop of general media bias in India [2] [3] The film premiered world-wide at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, winning the Amplify Voices award. [4]
Jul 27, 2024 · Directed by Vinay Shukla, the film gives us a fly-on-the-wall view of Ravish’s day-to-day at NDTV from 2018 to 2020. It paints a picture of a crumbling fourth estate that’s largely being held together by duct tape and the everlasting hope of a few good journalists who still remain committed to ideals of truth, justice, and equality.
Jul 21, 2023 · Over 94 minutes, Shukla captures the politicized ethics and swirling hysteria leading to the decline of contemporary journalism and the precarious position NDTV occupies on the television landscape. It takes time for “While We Watched” to find momentum: Shukla’s vérité approach spends the first half hour or so notating the broad problem.
While We Watched: Directed by Vinay Shukla. With Ravish Kumar, Sushil Bahuguna, Deepak Chaubey, Sushil Mohapatra. How independent news reporting in India and beyond is increasingly under threat by budgetary cuts and especially, extremists leveraging alternative platforms to spread misinformation.
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- Documentary, Biography, News
- Vinay Shukla
- 2023-07-14
Sep 24, 2023 · While We Watched is Vinay Shukla’s second fly-on-the-wall documentary. ... Even as NDTV struggles for its own independence, and Kumar stubbornly fights for his voice, the transformation of news ...
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Jun 6, 2024 · Shukla’s documentary, a film that plays out like a melancholy thriller, is set over 2018 and 2019, a time when Kumar’s employers NDTV were harassed by government regulatory bodies and forced ...
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Jul 13, 2023 · Shukla trains his camera on journalist Ravish Kumar, veteran mainstay of independent broadcaster NDTV. Kumar gives the film a compelling human centre, his mood forever readable on his face ...
