Arthshila Ahmedabad’s Film Screening this week features ‘𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀’ by 𝗡𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗮 & 𝗞𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗼𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗼𝘂.

𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗦:
𝟮𝟬 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗙𝗿𝗶) | 𝟱.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺
𝗥𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 𝟲𝟳 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘀
𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲: 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵, 𝗛𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶

‘Not Just Roads’ is an ethnographic documentary film that narrates the story of a massive urban transformation underway in India. Highways are being constructed at an unprecedented rate of 23 kilometres per day under the Indian government’s Bharatmala ‘Garland of Limitless Roads’ program. The program aims to open new territories for the emerging Indian middle class. Currently, the territory is inhabited by villages, working-class neighbourhoods, and nomadic herders. It is crisscrossed by native trails and vital ecological commons. This film captures the story of one such highway outside Delhi, from the perspective of human and non-human actors.