Dakxinkumar Bajrange, widely known as “Dakxin Chhara,” is a filmmaker, dramaturge, and activist belonging to the Chhara De-notified Tribe (DNT). He is a recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship and studied MA at the University of Leeds, UK. Currently, he lives in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He is the founder of a film production company called Nomad Movies Pvt Ltd and the founding trustee of Vimukta Trust and Budhan Theatre.

In 2014 his production company Nomad Movies produced the critically acclaimed Bollywood film Sameer starring Zeeshan Ayyub, Seema Biswas, and Anjali Patil. It was released in theatres in 2017 and then released on Netflix from Oct 2017 to Oct 2019, and is now available on Amazon Prime Video and Jio Cinema. Sameer also received the “Best Director” (2017) award at the Indian Film Festival of Queensland, Australia. Sameer was also invited by the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam to screen in India’s Focus section.

Films

Letters of Elsewhere

Abhi Indrekar, Michaela Henry, Dakxin Chhara

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