In 1948, at the London Olympics, post-Partition independent India defeats England – their erstwhile coloniser – in the hockey tournament to win the gold medal. Sixty years later, Nandy Singh, a member of that prestigious team suffers a stroke. His stoic struggle to live with his disability inspires his daughter to retrace the steps of his journey. Drawing from archival footage and interviews with his teammates, she reveals the lives shaped by that historic gold medal and the consequences of the Partition that left them as refugees. She also finds an old friend from Pakistan, who played in the same pre-Partition Indian team as her father, but who he never mentioned. In search of his journey, her quest leads her to the lost ‘watan’ (homeland).
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Festival Appearances
New York Indian Film Festival 2022 – Winner Best Documentary
International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala 2022
DokuBaku 2021
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Bani Singh
Bani studied space design at NID Ahmedabad and specialised in Museum studies. She worked at the Virasat-e-Khalsa Museum in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, as a gallery visualiser and content interpreter, and was a senior faculty at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. Taangh is her first film.
Sun, 6 Nov | 3:20 pm | Picture Time 1
