AND WE WERE THERE

About the film

Yeh Lo Bayaan Humaare is a film about the idealism, passion and jail time of young women coming of age in the late 1960s, seeking to change the world, and throwing themselves into movements sweeping parts of India. Hounded for their activities, tortured by the police and incarcerated in jails, these women found a camaraderie that went beyond the revolutionary ideology that had inspired them. The film tells the stories of fifteen young women, moving across Bengal and Bihar to Delhi, Bombay, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Yeh Lo Bayaan Humaare is built around these women's stories, narrated by them to the director in the mid-2010s.

About the director

Uma Chakravarti taught history at Miranda House, University College for Women, Delhi University, full time between 1966 and 1998 and then part-time at the same institution in an honorary capacity until 2006. She has authored four books, co-edited four others, and has written on early India, the 19th century and on contemporary issues such as violence within the family, custodial violence and sexual violence and impunity. As part of her life-long engagement with the everyday histories of women, Uma Chakravarti has recently made five films: A Quiet Little Entry, Fragments of a Past, Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya: Lucknow 1920- 1949, Prison Diaries, and Darbar e Watan (In the Court of the People). A long film project on the decade beginning from 1967 titled And We Were There/ Yeh Lo Bayaan Humaare (2021) is her latest film.

Priyanka Chhabra is an editor and award-winning director. Her work explores the themes of memory, time, landscape, and the relationships of people to places. Her previous works include A Summer Flu, Shape of Trees, Shame was a Place Inside, Oranges and Mangoes, and The Furnished Room. Her work has been exhibited at Oberhausen, Rotterdam, York, and Mumbai.