Charles Correa

Tough gangster film from Senegal centering around a young dealer and his girlfriend.

VOLUME ZERO is an hour-long documentary on the work and the ideas of Charles Correa, one of the world’s most important architects. It deals with his childhood, architectural training, formative years and the paradigm underlying his large and complex oeuvre spanning over five decades – as well as his pivotal role in addressing issues of urbanization in the Developing World. It uses first person narration by the filmmaker, combined with extended excerpts of interviews with Correa, live action, stills, diagrams, animation and archival footage to open up the thought processes that generate architectural space and form.

VISTARA was part of 'The Festival of India' - a series of major exhibitions in the 1980's organised by Pupul Jayakar, that the Govt. of India presented around the world: in London, New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin, and so forth. VISTARA presented not only the great monuments of Indian history but also examples of the vernacular habitat that existed alongside - and the beliefs and mythic imagery that had generated them both. The video is a single-screen condensation of a 9-projector multi-media presentation created by Imtiaz Dharker to articulate the central themes of the exhibition.

The film about the typical urban problems faced by the city of Bombay as its population has grown and how the idea about developing N Bombay evolved - the new city of 2 million that was being planned and developed across the harbor. The film speaks about the Thane creek bridge that had been opened to traffic. It shows development of the industrial belt near Thane employing over 20,000 persons that time, Konkan Bhavan for housing various state government departments, etc.