This is a story about Sarita and Raman Bhardwaj, their friends and neighbours in the ‘urban village’ of Kotla Mubarakpur, South Delhi. It explores the way the texture of urban spaces is woven into ideas of belonging, intimacy, friendship, ambition, and the desire to be 'here' but also somewhere else.

CREDITS

Writer & Researcher, Sanjay Srivastava

Director, Cinematography and Editor, Simon Wilmot

Narrator, Sanjay Srivastava

Producers, Simon Wilmot and Sanjay Srivastava.

Made with the Financial Assistance of the Japan Foundation, Asia Centre and Deakin University.

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“Srivastava and Wilmot's film is an intimate and lovingly-shot exploration of the meaning of locality for the inhabitants of one of the older enclaves of New Delhi. Many films show us neighbourhoods, but Kotla Walks is unique in its evocation of the varieties of attachment people have both to their local spaces and to their visions of the wider world. The close relationship that the filmmakers established with the main family filmed is evident throughout.” David MacDougall