Avinash Singh & Geeta Singh India
Full Circle
The enduring love for a land left behind.
Ashok Sawhny, an author, who at the age of 11, left his home in Pakistan to settle in India expresses his thoughts through his poetry in Urdu. Recalling moments of pain and dismay tinged with hope, Ashok recites his story of sixty years in sixty seconds.
- Edit & Direction:
- Geeta Singh
- Camera:
- Avinash Kumar Singh
- Assistant Direction:
- Deepak Kumar
- Sound Mix:
- Jai Kishor
- Music:
- Indraneel Hariharan
- Graphics:
- Nitin Verma
- Author/Performer:
- Ashok Sawhny
- Production Co-ordination:
- Shishupal Singh
Avinash Singh & Geeta Singh
Avinash Singh
Geeta Singh
The Artists, Geeta and Avinash Kumar Singh, run a film production company by the name of I Stylus, based in New Delhi, India. Working cross format, some prestigious television clients include the Discovery Channel, Discovery Travel and Living and the PSBT.
A Green Agony directed by Geeta Singh, was a finalist for the Panda Award at the Wildscreen festival 2006 in Bristol. The film explored the impact of climate change on the Sundarban Coastal Zone and was telecast on the Discovery Channel on World Environment day 2006.
Taming the Tons a 52-minute film directed by Avinash Kumar Singh, is about the first full-fledged, international white water descent of the river Tons in Uttaranchal, in 19 years. The film is being distributed internationally and telecast in the Middle East and Hungary.
For the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, Geeta and Avinash have produced three half hour documentaries. The Threads of Life explores the way cloth, embroidery and thread bind together a country as diverse as India. Silent Voices is a tribute to the women in Kalahandi, Orissa who have taken control of their own lives and have stood up to make a difference in the community they live in. Trunk Call is a film for children, by children telling the story of a dwindling Asian Elephant population, through the eyes of the two children who go to live the life of a Mahout in Kerala, India.
Together they directed and produced a prestigious four part series for the Discovery Channel, titled Chhattisgarh, the Tribal Planet. This rated in the top five ‘most watched shows’ on the Discovery Channel when it was first telecast and is now being shown across most of Discovery Australasia, Europe and South America. In 2003, Avinash & Geeta were awarded the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for their film The Joy of Giving, produced for Action Aid, India.
The Author, Ashok Sawhny, is uniquely qualified, as he has lived in both Lahore & Delhi and travelled extensively around the world, especially Britain. He writes, speaks and emotes passionately in Urdu, Hindi & English. He has the sensibilities of an intellectual Indian, the cultured elegance of the noble Pakistani and the dry humor and ethos of the British people. His writing comes from the heart and is simple, eloquent but extremely powerful. He is the true ‘multicultural’.