A Little Poland in India

On Location

Balachadi, Gujarat

The Mahurat Shot by Jam Saheb

Princess Hershad Kumari ji shows clothes that Polish children made for her

Polish plaque at Sainik school

Stypula with sons of doctors who took care of the children

Survivor Wieslaw Stypula

Son Shatrushalya Sinhji in the car of his father Jam Saheb

Warsaw, Poland

Survivors & Indo-Polish crew

Child artists as young survivors

Indo-Polish crew on location

Survivor Roman Gutowski

Survivors of Balachadi

Jam Saheb School in Warsaw

Stypula films at home

Survivor Zbigniew Bartosz

Survivor Jadwiga Tomaszek

CLIENTS

The Republic of Poland

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Embassy of Poland in India, Polish Institute (New Delhi) has collaborated with AAKAAR FILMS in Films and Strategic Communication projects. Read more…

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Ministry of External Affairs, India

MEA (Public Diplomacy) has produced Films with AAKAAR projecting India’s positive initiatives on varied subjects for a global viewership. Read more…

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BBC World Service Trust (India)

BBC WST, the social awareness media action of BBC World campaign on HIV-AIDS and awareness in India associated with Anu Radha as a Consultant for production of their television spots for Northern India. It also involved marketing, sponsorship and networking with Government broadcasters and agencies of Government of India, as well as the State Government bodies involved in policy decisions. Read more…

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World Health Organization, Geneva

“Lives in the Balance”, a High-Level Meeting (HLM) with the Government of India for Partnership for Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health (PSMNH), Geneva & the Healthy Newborn Partnership and the newly established Child Survival Partnership conducted and collaborated with AAKAAR in New Delhi (India). Read more…

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Films

India-Poland

A rare piece of history that unravels the stories of abandoned Polish children and women during WW2, who were given protection in India from 1942-46.

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India-Hungry

Courage of a unique Indian diplomat Mohamed Ataur Rahman, the Charge d’Affaires of the Indian Embassy in Budapest in 1956, who intervened with the Soviet Union to save the life of Dr. Arpad Goncz, who subsequently served as President of Hungary from 1990 to 2000

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Strategic Communication

Embassy of the Republic of Poland in India

Celebrating 100 years of Poland was the moment to honor a long – standing historical bi-lateral relationship between India and Poland with event
Generation to Generations.

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NSDC-Skill India Mission

Communications and advocacy project with Community Radio Stations (CRS) across India. The communication strategy was development with manifold approach taking into account needs and deliverables for PMKVY (Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana) under Skill India Mission.

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In The News

Generation to Generations

Celebrating 100 years of Poland regaining independence

Aakaar Films • May 19, 2020

Coverage in Polish Press

Little Poland in Kathiawar is receiving a lot of publicity in the Polish press. Read on for some of the recent news articles.

Aakaar Films • January 31, 2013

Coverage in Polish Press: TVN 24

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Aakaar Films • January 25, 2013

Empowered Gender

(s) MOTHER- ing

A word of caution: It is only about women, for women and by women. They form this lineage of change of defining Mother-hood. Do you feel motherhood is the last mile of fulfilment to be defined a “complete woman?” creation of a child completes a “woman,” whereas men’s creativity can only fulfilled through external sources? […]

Aakaar Films • July 20, 2020

AKA’s – In the land of Rising Sun

“I married eight times. There are five alive now. Three have died. But I have not forced anyone. I like the woman, she likes me, that’s how I get them. I got eight. In cities people have many women hidden, leave them and then get another. But in my life, whosoever I married, I have […]

Aakaar Films • May 17, 2020

NO. Gender. Abuse.

A reader may be perplexed by the use of a title that leads into a scratching mind-game, as an intellectual would term it. Are you? Well, let us dig a bit deeper into defining it – word-by-word. NO: No Objection; No Ownership; No Oppression; Or simply, NO. Gender: Male or Female, right? Wrong. To be […]

Aakaar Films • May 17, 2020

Case Studies

NaMo Conversations – My experiments with truth

Ab ki baar, banao MODI Sarkar.

Aakaar Films • May 30, 2020

Mating of Creative Genius (es)

His gruff baritone over telecon was humble with a flavour of warmth. I was honoured to be invited into his official chamber in Mumbai that looked an art house. And why not? He was an elegant establishment of Art or Alternate cinema in India. Punctual with honest simplicity, I was looking at a Film Director […]

Aakaar Films • May 24, 2020

Copyright

INDIA (Government of Gujarat, Doordarshan) & POLAND (NInA, TVP) Location: Gujarat (Jamnagar & Balachadi) & Warsaw (Poland) FILM : A LITTLE POLAND IN INDIA The Beginning was exciting, euphoric and stimulating to my intellectual property (grey cells). I had found a gem in historical connect between India and Poland; a story that was a diamond, […]

Aakaar Films • May 28, 2014