Vikram Dasgupta

Exploring the big players in the global marketplace, the ripple effect of an ownership concentration that is vast and covert, and the innovation in tech and policy that sustains an ever-growing demand for essential goods. The series delves into the ownership and sustainability of vital elements that underpin our daily lives: Energy, Food, Land and Transportation.Exploring the big players in the global marketplace, the ripple effect of an ownership concentration that is vast and covert, and the innovation in tech and policy that sustains an ever-growing demand for essential goods. The series delves into the ownership and sustainability of vital elements that underpin our daily lives: Energy, Food, Land and Transportation.

Everyday for the past 7 years, Sulakshmi (63) compulsively cooks from 6am to 10am and feeds 500+ stray dogs in Delhi. DogMa is a personal documentary about an obsessive mother's journey through the eyes of her conflicted son.

A young Art College student Aditya Chaterji finds his backpack and belongings stolen on the day of a political strike called by the infamous political party of Calcutta. Meanwhile Bakul Bihari faces the opportunity of a lifetime to win big for his glorious though covetous efforts to help a poor boy in distress. Cab driver Rasul Ahmed discovers a bomb in his backseat at a congested traffic signal in an extremely unpredictable and sensitive slum area of Calcutta. Set in the grimy backdrop of a city going through a political crisis, Calcutta Taxi unravels the story of three lives that coincide and affect each other. Each one having lost and found some things in this chance encounter of life.

"Take from the rich. Keep for the poor. That's what we're here for". Ravi and Samar are two orphaned pickpocket brothers from Delhi, India. When a heist goes wrong, tragedy leaves one boy seeking retribution.

When a young Siphe November leaves his small township in South Africa to follow his dreams at Canada’s National Ballet School, he begins a remarkable journey that reveals deeply personal pulses of family, prejudice, expectation, loss, and resilience that beat beneath the surface of a beautiful and demanding art form.

A young man living in Toronto sends several friends to stay with his family in India. His traditional Bengali parents in Calcutta receive the visitors with all due respect because they think one of the guests carries a special message. Old world tradition gets turned on its head as the family adapts to their guests' new world value