Insides and Outsides | movie | 2023 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

Insides and Outsides is a documentary film project, which captures a timeline from the end of 2019, when the CAA/NRC pro | dG1fd1drX09QNlhfZnM

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00:00 Hello, this is Arbaab Ahmed and I'm here to talk about my project which is called Insides

00:06 and Outsides and the various changes in the process while making this film.

00:13 The initial impetus of this project actually started in the beginning of 2020.

00:18 This was during the time when CA and RC protests were on their peak.

00:29 Being a Muslim in India at this particular point of time, I had the strong urge to answer

00:36 this question.

00:37 We are seeing the legal implications of CA and RC protests, but what is the implication

00:44 of their identity?

00:45 You have asked about our identity, so I will say that being a Muslim is our duty.

00:54 If something is spreading in our country that is causing injustice to people, then we should

01:02 stand up against it.

01:04 Today, this is happening to us, so we are standing up for ourselves.

01:07 We know that this will happen to other people as well.

01:10 Initially, I wanted to take the research track to this topic, where I start from research

01:17 and slowly get into the field with a general understanding of the topic at hand.

01:22 But since I had a lot of stake in this project personally, as well as the people who are

01:28 on the streets, who had a lot of things to say about themselves and their own identity,

01:34 I felt that the kind of objectivity I was initially going for is not possible from my perspective.

01:39 The pandemic and the lockdown pretty much upturned the way I was going to shoot this documentary.

02:02 'At Home' is where my documentary took a new life.

02:12 'At Home'

02:38 Suddenly, I found a new strand, which was much more personal and much more fulfilling

02:47 for me as a filmmaker.

02:49 And my observations in the film changed from larger political and sociological realities

02:57 to more interpersonal and more self-defined ideas of identity.