Name: In search of Bidesia
Start: 2025-04-17T14:00:00+05:30
End: 2025-04-17T19:30:00+05:30
Location: Harkat Studios: Mumbai

In Search of Bidesia is a musical documentary on Bhojpuri folk music that connects the history of indentured labour migration from the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to the last living musicians in these states, who are now struggling to ensure these songs of love and longing do not slip into oblivion. Director`s profile: Simit Bhagat is Mumbai-based screenwriter, director and social development practitioner. His first short documentary film ‘My Disappearing Farms’ was selected at 9th CMS Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife International Film Festival and Forum 2017, New Delhi. In early 2019, Simit left his full-time job with an international NGO to pursue filmmaking. In Search of Bidesia is his first feature length film.