India: A Million Mutinies Now - Closing

To make the film, Paritosh said, they had had to build their own slum or shanty town. For legal reasons they couldn't use a real place. They had taken photographs of various real places, and they had created a kind of composite Bombay slum. While the film was being shot, they had all lived in the various huts of the set. Just the day before, Paritosh said, they had begun to dismantle the make-believee slum they had lived in for maay weeks. It had given him a pang.

December 1988 - February 1990