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About the Movie:
‘Dr. B. R Ambedkar: Now & Then’ is a feature-length documentary film that explores deep questions of the human condition. Questions of liberty, equality, fraternity, social justice, exclusion, and marginalized representation through, Jyoti Nisha, a Bahujan feminist filmmaker's gaze in an upper-caste Indian film industry. The film aspires to translate the praxis of Ambedkarite politics to image-making and representation of marginalized subjects' culture, history, and politics in popular cinema and media. Driven by Dr. Ambedkar's philosophy epistemologically, the film symbolically and politically documents the representation and assertion of Bahujan people in the contemporary era. Questioning the institution of caste in India, this film is a commentary on religion, revolution, politics, and the freedom of speech.

About the Director:
Jyoti Nisha is a multi-disciplinary professional- an academic, writer, screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer focusing on cinema, gaze, caste, gender, and mass media. She theorized a political theory, Bahujan Spectatorship that opposes the popular culture's casteist male gaze and stereotypical representation of the marginalized, earlier called untouchables, on the silver screen and explores the consumption and spectatorship of popular cinema's representation of caste, gender, and sexuality by the marginalized of India. Her second theory, The Oppositional Bahujan Agency replaces the Brahmanical aesthetics of Natyashastra with Ambedkar's historical methods as an epistemology to locate a non-Brahmin experience to explore the representation of caste, gender, and marginalized communities in Indian cinema