A graduate of FTII, Pune, Sanjiv Shah has been a filmmaker for the past 4 decades working on a range of fiction and non-fictions films that explore the cinematic medium to effectively communicate and engage with issues that are socially, culturally and politically relevant. He has worked on prestigious films such as Mirch Masala (1987) and has produced, edited and directed several documentaries on issues like housing rights, drought in the grasslands of Kutch, struggles of organized landless labourers across India, and ecosystems of the desert of Rajasthan and the Himalayas. Sanjiv Shah’s Hun Hunshi Hunshilal (1992) is a film in Gujarati that was made around the time of India’s liberalisation. The film looks at the contemporary history of the era, which saw the rise of globalisation as well as fundamentalism and growing intolerance towards alternative voices and dissent.