After the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan in May 1998, we began to film not only the euphoria and jingoism that followed but also the beginnings of an anti-nuclear movement. Our trail has taken us across India from the test site to the site of uranium mining. We have also filmed in Pakistan as well as Japan and the USA in an effort to understand the psyche that has allowed weapons of mass destruction to exist and expands.
　
Anand Patwardhan　
He has been making documentaries on the Socio-Political Realities of India for close to 3 decades. His films include Bombay Our City on the slums of Bombay, In the Name of God and Father, Son and Holy War on the rise of religious fundamentalism and Narmada Diary on big dams.

Director's Message:
In 1974 when India conducted its first nuclear test, I was 24 and remember being horrified that this land which had once deified Gandhi could so quickly abandon the very premise he had lived and died for.
Perhaps the guilt of this act permeated even to its perpetrators for 24 years passed before India would test again. By this time there was a Hindu nationalist government in power that had always championed the cause of a "strong" India armed with the Atom Bomb.
Seeing the dancing in the streets, the mindless euphoria, the self congratulatory bravado of scientists and the calculated cynicism of "patriotic" politicians, my first reaction was of numbing depression. Then I began to do what I have done before, pick up my camera and document the madness unfolding before me. It is a kind of therapy to shoot at such times as it gives me the illusion that I'm not a completely helpless witness to the tragedy of our times and the act of documenting is nevertheless, an act.

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