Reality check
THE WEEK India|September 11, 2022
Filmmaker Reema Mohan left the obsession with ‘literal truth’ a long time ago
NIRMAL JOVIAL
Reality check

When Reena Mohan joined the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, there were just five women on the campus. “Oh, you took a boy’s seat; you will get married and leave editing,” she often heard the comment. Mohan never left editing and never stopped learning cinema.

The Bombay film industry did not attract her, but documentary filmmaking did. As part of her final-year project, she made a documentary on an artist in Worli. That work viewed the subject “from a distance”, and was quite unlike her later works. 

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