Satyajit Ray

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Sikkim (film) - the documentary was commissioned by the King of Sikkim when he saw the sovereignity of Sikkim under threat from China and India. Satyajit Ray's documentary captures exactly that - the sovereignity of Sikkim. After the Indian annexation of Sikkim in 1975, the documentary was banned by the Indian government, and all existing copies of the documentary destroyed. The only piece of the film left is a scene-by-scene written reconstruction of the film by the remaining film team members. However, rumors flame of a copy of the film being present with the royal family in exile, and another copy in the film library of an American university. As a postscript, India and China agreed to mutually recognize Sikkim and Tibet as legal parts of the other nation, a sad story for the South Asian diversity which this film projected.

Related Topics:
Sikkim (film) - King of Sikkim - China - India - Sikkim - 1975

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