Indian Or Not Indian # 40

Indian Or Not Indian (Deshi Na Bideshi)

19:00, Saturday 15th June, CMB 1&2

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  • Director/Anthropologist: Tim Alazraki
  • Year of Release: 2011
  • Duration: 52 mins
  • Country of Production: France
  • Location: India, West Bengal
  • Ethnic Group: Bengali, Orya, French
  • Language: French, Bengali, English

 

Patrice is a French undocumented immigrant in India. He is married to a Bengali village woman and has three children. His story exemplifies questions about integration, identity and cross culture.

He never went back to France

He has no official papers

He has no permanent visa

He has left everything,

He is no longer French,
He will never be totally Indian...




Neither from here nor there, he does occasional odd jobs to survive, while organizing his life on the fringe of society.

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