2002 Gujarat carnage was communal violence at another scale, shook me to my core, says filmmaker Rakesh Sharma at IDSFFK 2025

In 1992, the first instinct of Raqesh Sharma, which faced jointly in the neighborhood in Mumbai, was to organize a charity camp in Jogshwari until new houses were built for the victims. They also lended to legal assistance, firing and receiving compensation. Ten years later, when he witnessed the 2002 Gujarat rebellions, he knew he had to intervene as a filmmaker. So he was born Last solutionOne of the seminal works of Indian documentary film production.

Sharma said, im My intervention attempt, if we do not control such social politics, I shouted at the roofs because we would destroy the social fabric. Hindu During the 17th International Documentary and Short Film Festival (IDSFFK), which was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Initially, he could not manage what he witnessed at the Shah Alam Aid Camp in Ahmedabad, he closed the shoot a day later, drowned by the scale and nature of the ones.

Um I was not alien to social violence, but what happened in Gujarat was in another scale, as if another side of organized violence, not only awake, but also awake and the state working with the state, a face, the nature of the nucleus and a transparent way. A few weeks later, we have witnessed the emergence of something new and a new filmmaker.

After starting to help Shyam Benegal in his career Discovery of India (Bharat EK KHOJ)He says he has made “eight -year corporate slavery to buy his freedom. Channel V and later Star Plus in a way to start the work, financed the documentary construction. “So, people like Rupert Murdoch provided funds Last solution”He says.

While documentary Aftershock shocks Described in the first person, Last solution There is no voice. It is a series after the series of victims and perpetrators of the Gujarat rebellions and the Gauv Yathra, led by the Gujarat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other Sangh Parivar leaders who spoke on the camera.

“It was a deliberate choice not to use vocalities, because then people would focus on the words used. Everywhere the film was balanced, because I show victims and perpetrators. As a filmmaker, I know it was a balanced thing. Since I had a very special perspective, it had a very special perspective. Style.

Mr. Sharma said he didn’t want to preach the choir or fundamentalists. He wanted to target the majority with unstable or indifferent or very busy or victims of misunderstanding and misunderstanding. “I had to build this 80%in a way that emerges in front of the narrative, so that they can evaluate themselves in their minds and create an opinion, or he says.

Ask the question of how difficult it would be to make a movie Last solution Now – Based on any of the common flames since recent years – Mr. Sharma said, “You will need navigation skills in these enemy conflict lands.