Richie Mehta, a Canadian film director of Indian origin, showcased his documentary ‘India In a Day’ at the 47th International Film Festival of India and it was released Wednesday on YouTube.
The documentary supported by Google India, is Mehta’s fourth project and special for having crowd-sourced all of its footage.
The team received over thousands of entries of footage shot by Indian citizens reflecting a day in their lives. Mehta spoke about the creative process involved behind producing the documentary at IFFI in Goa.
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Mehta said that in the last fifteen years he has spent six months every year in India. His life experiences in India acted as a source of inspiration for him which made him come back again and again to India.
His earlier two movies ‘Amal’ and ‘Siddharth’ were shot in Delhi. He further added that there was a stylistic change in the way documentaries were being directed.
There was an amalgamation of fiction with reality and though there has been continuous experimentation with this medium, the most important thing was to catch hold of the basic sentiment, Mehta said.
