The Charminar is a well-known historical monument. It symbolizes the city of Hyderabad with all its gigantic and vibrant cultural past and eventful present. The human life with its myriad forms and dimensions around it, has added the essential dynamism to the static structure of Charminar, and made it into the most happening and hopeful place to charm, celebrate and churn. The then symbol of victory over misery, has become an abode of poverty and prosperity; glitz and garbage, now.
Life @ Charminar is a tribute to the different angles of human life pervaded around Charminar in general and at the auspicious occasion of RAMZAN in particular, within the modes of Night and Day times. It is a human document, which envisages the ecstasy and the agony with equal vigour and vision. The socio-economic, politico-cultural affairs and the aesthetical expressions, emotional realities of the people around the Charminar, is the under current thread that drives this human document. Here, The Charminar visualizes as the immobile human-being, which reveals many moods in silence and every human as the moving Charminar.
This is a “docu-poem” and first of its kind novel experiment in its style in the history of Documentaries. It is a perfect blend of poetic expression and documentary presentation. In addition to it, the “docu-poem” is unique in other terms too, as this work is carried out by a creative team of all-women technicians.
