S.N.S. Sastry’s I Am 20 in which Indians born in 1947 were interviewed on the occasion of their (and the country’s) 20th birthday

Having rummaged through some several hundred films archived at the Films Division of India, based at Peddar Road, scholar and documentary filmmaker Peter Sutoris observes that documentary filmmaking can be compared to many of the technologies introduced in India during the British colonial rule. And, like the language of the coloniser, what was once used by the Empire to muster public support for World War II, documentaries soon became the visual ammo used by nationalists. Soon, those like Shyam Benegal, Mani Kaul, Mrinal Sena and Vidhu Vinod Chopra worked on Films Division (FD) projects as students before shooting to fame.