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| name = Appunti per un film sull'India<br />
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| director = [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]]<br />
| producer = Gianni Barcelloni<br />
| writer = Pier Paolo Pasolini<br>Sergio Citti<br />
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| music = Ennio Morricone<br />
| cinematography = Roberto Nappa<br>Federico Zanni<br />
| editing = Jenner Menghi<br />
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| released = {{Film date|1968|8|18|Venice Film Festival|df=y}}<br />
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| country = Italy<br />
| language = Italian<br />
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'''''Appunti per un film sull'India''''' is a 1968 short documentary film by [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] where he visits India to do a recce for his proposed film with India as its background about a king who gives up his body to feed a starving tiger.<ref>{{cite book<br />
| title = A certain realism: making use of Pasolini's film theory and practice<br />
| url = https://archive.org/details/certainrealismma00vian<br />
| url-access = registration<br />
| author = Maurizio Sanzio Viano<br />
| edition = illustrated<br />
| publisher = University of California Press<br />
| year = 1993<br />
| isbn = 978-0-520-07855-0<br />
| page = [https://archive.org/details/certainrealismma00vian/page/194 194]<br />
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book<br />
| title = Pier Paolo Pasolini<br />
| author = Piero Spila<br />
| publisher = Gremese Editore<br />
| year = 1999<br />
| isbn = 978-88-7742-195-1<br />
| page = 77<br />
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The film was shot around post-independent India when it was facing grave challenges of poverty, population and caste system. Pasolini narrates the challenges of India and its charms amidst all the problems the country faces. The 33-minute-long documentary is composed of short interviews from random people about their opinions on matters such as family planning. The documentary also shows short interviews of journalists and one politician about the challenges India faces in modernizing itself without becoming westernized or losing the Indian identity in the process.<br />
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The film opens and ends with a shot of a [[Sikh]] soldier, who, Pasolini identifies, in his commentary, as the one who would play the role of Maharaja in his film. Among others Pasolini interviewed for his film the former Maharaja of [[Bhavnagar State|Bhavanagar]] and his wife and well-known [[Urdu]] story writer and filmmaker [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]].<br />
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The documentary was shot in many places including [[New Delhi]], [[Jaipur]], [[Rishikesh]] and [[Varanasi]] etc.<br />
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