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Importance Of Documentary Films.

Name:-Hitaxi H Bhatt.
Roll No:- 03.
Email Id:- hitaxidave81@gmail.com
Enrolment No:- PG15101004
Paper No:- 15  ( Mass Communication and Media Studies.)
Submitted to:- Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

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Topic:- Importance Of Documentary Films.

·      What is documentary?

A documentary is a film or video examining an event or person based on facts. 

·      Importance of documentary Film.
Filmmaking is a powerful medium and it’s important that documentary filmmakers continue to use it to talk about social issues, push their agendas, and more. As long as they entertain and inform us they’re doing a service, even if you happen to disagree with what the documentarian is saying. What’s important is that he or she is saying it and hopefully saying it well so that anyone can understand and get behind the point of the film.
Documentary film is one of the most important mediums for change available. The makers of television are too concerned with profit to be able to do anything of that nature and Hollywood films are all about the money over the art. Documentary films can be made cheaply so there’s less concern about turning a huge profit, thus the ability to address important issues.
Documentaries are also means by which young people can share and learn about cultural experiences with others. Watching documentaries about other cultures and nations can generate interest in various subjects like languages and culture of a nation. Viewing documentaries together on television at home, gives a family to voice out their opinions, not only strengthening family bonds but also giving a platform to learn about everyone’s views in the families. A good factual representation of homosexuality, for example, when viewed together as a family, gives a closeted homosexual in the family an opportunity to come out into the open with his sexual preference instead of attempting to hide it from his family and living a double life.
Documentaries are also a great way for parents to get their children to the reading habit. After watching some interesting films about wildlife, space or a foreign culture, it is easier for kids to get nudged into reading in detail about them. Documentaries can also teach good common sense and great values to children through the reality lesson it conveys. Documentaries can be an ice breaker in families or between friends when they put forward facts about sensitive issues like HIV and AIDS. It gives a chance to every interested party to broach a discussion to test the waters to see how each one reacts. Documentaries also encourage critical thinking about the world, and seeing facts, can eliminate many myths and superstitions about issues. Watching documentaries about a certain country or region in the world can educate those people who cannot afford travel. They can still learn and enjoy the many benefits of travelling, by watching documentaries.
Documentaries can educate and inspire people into taking certain steps which would not have been possible otherwise. Lives are changed when people watch brave deeds or selfless serving of humanity and then decide to emulate the examples shown in the documentary. Many people get a new direction in life when they are positively influenced by these films.

·      Documentaries  with  impactful  stories  about  India:-


1)Gulabi Gang - Directed by Nishitha Jain.
·       The Gulabi gang was founded by Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five and former government health worker as a response to widespread domestic abuse and other violence against women. Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up with bamboo sticks unless they stop abusing their wives. This film explores the daily lives of the fiery women of the Gulabi Gang and traces the journey of Sampat Pal in a movement that grew from an individual crusade to snowball into a veritable one comprising of large number of women. The film shows how the society has become a patriarchal one, wherein even female psyche is embedded with the thoughts of patriarchy as it refuses to speak the language of feminism.

2) Children Of The Pyre-  Directed by Rajesh S. Jala,

 The film documents the story of seven children who cremate bodies at the India’s largest crematorium, Manikarnika, on the banks of the Ganges, in Varanasi. The childhood of these kids is spent in stealing cremation shrouds and burning dead bodies.


3) The Final Solution - Directed by Rakesh Sharma.
The Final Solution is a 2003 documentary directed by Rakesh Sharma about the 2002 communal Gujarat Riots that arose as a response to the Godhra Train Burning incident on February 27, 2002,. The documentary consists mostly of interviews, with both Muslims and Hindus, of multiple generations, and both sexes, with different views regarding the causes, justifications, and the actual events of the violence that occurred, as well as their prospects for the future. The government of Gujurat at the time, led by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, was highly criticised throughout the documentary and was accused of inciting much of the rioting and not doing enough to halt it.

4) In Their Shoes - Directed byAtul Sabharwal


The filmmaker tries to find out why was he always pushed away by his father from joining the family business of shoe material trading. In his quest he unravels the odyssey of the footwear industry in Agra, India and the journey of some of the men behind it.
5) Satyamev Jayate.
Aamir Khan hosts and produces this documentary/talk-show that explores the social issues effecting modern India.

Conclusion:-
Documentaries are interesting in this regard, though, because they most often deal with subjects and stories in a far more direct manner. They’re meant to be taken as non-fiction, and are thus awarded with the literal nature with which we tend to treat anything deemed as true to life or real world stories.

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