1 00:02:29,182 --> 00:02:31,912 The men who enter our building... 2 00:02:32,118 --> 00:02:33,278 are not so good. 3 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:47,459 They are drunk. 4 00:02:47,967 --> 00:02:50,527 They come inside and shout and swear. 5 00:02:53,006 --> 00:02:54,908 The women ask me... 6 00:02:54,908 --> 00:02:57,638 "when are you going to join the line?" 7 00:02:58,044 --> 00:03:00,103 They say it won't be long. 8 00:03:12,725 --> 00:03:15,853 It's almost impossible to photograph in the red light district. 9 00:03:16,729 --> 00:03:18,697 Everyone is terrified of the camera. 10 00:03:19,098 --> 00:03:21,362 They are frightened of being found out. 11 00:03:22,535 --> 00:03:24,127 Everything is illegal. 12 00:03:26,873 --> 00:03:29,068 There's a whole separate society within itself... 13 00:03:29,242 --> 00:03:32,211 I mean, you just walk down that one lane and it's another world. 14 00:03:35,481 --> 00:03:37,346 I knew I couldn't do this as a visitor. 15 00:03:37,517 --> 00:03:40,953 I wanted to stay with them, live with them and understand their lives. 16 00:03:48,027 --> 00:03:50,296 And of course, as soon as I entered the brothels... 17 00:03:50,296 --> 00:03:51,661 I met the children. 18 00:04:36,943 --> 00:04:39,878 The brothels are filled with children, they are everywhere. 19 00:04:40,546 --> 00:04:42,446 And they were so curious. 20 00:04:42,515 --> 00:04:45,951 They didn't understand why this woman had come and what I was doing there. 21 00:04:47,253 --> 00:04:50,245 They were all over me, and I would play with them. 22 00:04:50,323 --> 00:04:52,587 And take their photographs and they would take mine. 23 00:04:53,259 --> 00:04:55,659 They wanted to learn how to use the camera. 24 00:04:56,429 --> 00:05:00,263 That's when I thought it would be really great to teach them... 25 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:03,128 and to see this world through their eyes. 26 00:05:15,014 --> 00:05:18,006 Kochi is in the class. 27 00:05:18,251 --> 00:05:21,015 She's the quiet type, shy with the camera. 28 00:05:30,930 --> 00:05:35,492 And if Shanti doesn't get her way, she get's mad and runs away. 29 00:05:42,208 --> 00:05:45,473 I like Avijit but he gets upset if someone calls him fat. 30 00:05:52,985 --> 00:05:54,854 And Suchitra... whatever you give her... 31 00:05:54,854 --> 00:05:56,879 she quietly takes it. 32 00:05:57,023 --> 00:05:58,991 She doesn't fight with anyone. 33 00:06:11,704 --> 00:06:14,195 When they beat Manik, he gets mad. 34 00:06:15,007 --> 00:06:17,373 He never bothers anyone. 35 00:06:23,683 --> 00:06:27,119 Gour, if someone calls Gour "garu", "cow" he gets mad. 36 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,515 He picks his teeth all the time. 37 00:06:42,135 --> 00:06:44,228 My name is Puja Mukerjee. 38 00:06:44,437 --> 00:06:46,632 I live in Abinash Kaviraj Lane. 39 00:06:46,873 --> 00:06:48,272 I'm ten years old. 40 00:07:09,395 --> 00:07:12,262 For Geeta masi upstairs, I do dishes... 41 00:07:12,465 --> 00:07:15,923 I bring tea, do errands. 42 00:07:16,502 --> 00:07:18,402 She gives us money. 43 00:07:20,339 --> 00:07:24,002 I mop twice a day. The porch too. 44 00:07:25,378 --> 00:07:28,870 In the evenings, if they want, I do shopping. 45 00:07:30,716 --> 00:07:33,920 Until 11:00 at night, if they want curry or rice... 46 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:35,888 I have to get it. 47 00:07:47,767 --> 00:07:49,792 I keep thinking... 48 00:07:50,069 --> 00:07:52,264 if I could... 49 00:07:52,638 --> 00:07:55,266 go some place else... 50 00:07:55,441 --> 00:07:57,102 and get education. 51 00:08:15,962 --> 00:08:19,022 When you hold the camera, take your time to look. 52 00:08:19,232 --> 00:08:21,166 Don't just go like this. 53 00:08:21,667 --> 00:08:23,931 If it's not right here... 54 00:08:24,003 --> 00:08:26,005 I'll move a little bit... 55 00:08:26,005 --> 00:08:28,439 and make sure everything in the whole square... 56 00:08:28,674 --> 00:08:31,040 Looks good and then I'll take the picture. 57 00:08:31,277 --> 00:08:34,906 So just do it more slowly. So I want her to look. 58 00:08:39,085 --> 00:08:42,384 Just today, I took someone's picture and he badmouthed me. 59 00:08:42,588 --> 00:08:46,547 I didn't mind. You really have to put up with a lot... 60 00:08:46,926 --> 00:08:48,689 If you want to learn to do something well. 61 00:08:56,035 --> 00:08:57,570 I never really... 62 00:08:57,570 --> 00:09:00,038 think about being rich. 63 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:03,404 Even if I was poor... 64 00:09:03,776 --> 00:09:06,540 I would have a happy life. 65 00:09:07,813 --> 00:09:09,906 One has to accept... 66 00:09:10,082 --> 00:09:12,073 life as being... 67 00:09:12,318 --> 00:09:14,120 sad and painful... 68 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,348 that's all. 69 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:19,082 Pick up the bucket. 70 00:09:19,325 --> 00:09:22,294 You do it. I don't have any more to do. 71 00:09:22,528 --> 00:09:26,191 You selfish fucking bitch. You can't even fetch water properly. 72 00:09:26,532 --> 00:09:28,898 Hey, I didn't take your water. 73 00:09:29,435 --> 00:09:33,132 You know how to use your filthy mouth all right. 74 00:09:35,007 --> 00:09:37,237 You worthless little cunt. 75 00:09:40,046 --> 00:09:42,412 Go tell your mother to get fucked. 76 00:09:47,553 --> 00:09:50,189 I have to do something... 77 00:09:50,189 --> 00:09:52,657 with my sewing and photography. 78 00:09:53,025 --> 00:09:56,483 I need to make a living and take care of my sister and me. 79 00:10:33,666 --> 00:10:36,464 People ask me why am I in India, why I come and do this work. 80 00:10:36,969 --> 00:10:40,666 There's no rational, logical reason why I do this... 81 00:10:40,906 --> 00:10:43,209 but I feel very connected to the women... 82 00:10:43,209 --> 00:10:45,234 and now their children. 83 00:10:48,714 --> 00:10:50,147 Does she like this one? 84 00:10:50,483 --> 00:10:53,919 She should be able to say why she likes a photo or doesn't like it. 85 00:10:53,986 --> 00:10:56,113 She doesn't have to agree with anyone. 86 00:10:57,189 --> 00:11:00,590 I don't like this one because it's just one head sticking out. 87 00:11:04,430 --> 00:11:07,399 You know what? She's right, it's one head sticking out. 88 00:11:07,633 --> 00:11:09,931 That's why i like it and that's why she doesn't like it. 89 00:11:12,571 --> 00:11:15,641 I like Zana auntie's class a lot. 90 00:11:15,641 --> 00:11:17,575 I like taking pictures. 91 00:11:22,581 --> 00:11:24,674 Editing pictures... 92 00:11:25,718 --> 00:11:27,709 I only like a little. 93 00:11:28,554 --> 00:11:30,988 I like taking pictures more. 94 00:11:37,963 --> 00:11:40,659 I feel shy taking pictures in public. 95 00:11:43,135 --> 00:11:46,502 People tease us and say mean things. 96 00:11:53,412 --> 00:11:55,073 They say... 97 00:11:55,314 --> 00:11:58,010 "look at them taking photographs..." 98 00:11:58,284 --> 00:12:00,586 "who knows where they could have bought... 99 00:12:00,586 --> 00:12:03,111 those cameras from!" 100 00:12:04,523 --> 00:12:07,093 Can you see, grandma? 101 00:12:07,093 --> 00:12:09,061 Look carefully. 102 00:12:12,198 --> 00:12:13,833 Grandma, please... 103 00:12:13,833 --> 00:12:15,528 Look carefully. 104 00:12:15,634 --> 00:12:17,937 Close one eye... 105 00:12:17,937 --> 00:12:19,871 open the other... 106 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:21,901 and take a look. 107 00:12:22,174 --> 00:12:24,267 - Can you see it now? - Yes. 108 00:12:24,543 --> 00:12:27,842 Sister, let me see. 109 00:12:30,049 --> 00:12:32,347 My god, how beautiful! 110 00:13:14,326 --> 00:13:16,487 This picture is funny to me. 111 00:13:16,695 --> 00:13:19,255 Maybe it's just because I'm a westerner... 112 00:13:19,498 --> 00:13:22,626 but they look like an old married couple holding their twins. 113 00:13:27,606 --> 00:13:29,403 He is like my brother! 114 00:13:29,642 --> 00:13:32,702 No, no way... I'm not going to do anything anymore. 115 00:13:32,945 --> 00:13:34,845 Why are you lying so much? 116 00:13:35,114 --> 00:13:37,947 Avijit keeps teasing me. 117 00:13:38,083 --> 00:13:41,314 It's a funny photograph because I know that's not true. 118 00:13:43,989 --> 00:13:47,550 In the photography class, I like to do the selection thing... 119 00:13:47,893 --> 00:13:49,228 like... 120 00:13:49,228 --> 00:13:51,492 I like this one, or that one... 121 00:13:56,468 --> 00:13:59,904 he gets to run around taking pictures. 122 00:14:00,573 --> 00:14:03,906 But our parents don't let me go anywhere. 123 00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:09,472 He beats me up all the time... 124 00:14:10,482 --> 00:14:12,882 - why? - I don't know. I don't do anything... 125 00:14:12,952 --> 00:14:15,921 he punches me if I touch his kites. 126 00:14:16,989 --> 00:14:19,992 And what if you get separated from Manik... 127 00:14:19,992 --> 00:14:22,119 would that be okay? 128 00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:23,589 Yes. 129 00:14:24,029 --> 00:14:26,293 When I was taking this picture... 130 00:14:26,565 --> 00:14:29,591 Shanti came and put her hand in front of the light... 131 00:14:30,002 --> 00:14:32,527 and so her hand came into the picture. 132 00:14:42,448 --> 00:14:45,576 Dad, they tore up one of my kites. 133 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:49,555 When I was little... 134 00:14:49,555 --> 00:14:52,581 the police used to take my mom. 135 00:14:52,992 --> 00:14:55,893 My dad would take me to the court to get her. 136 00:14:55,961 --> 00:15:00,057 They'd ask her: "Are you going to do it again?" 137 00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:02,201 She'd say no. 138 00:15:02,201 --> 00:15:04,294 Then they'd let her go. 139 00:15:06,405 --> 00:15:10,501 My mom is very worried about Shanti's future. 140 00:15:11,944 --> 00:15:14,378 In our room... 141 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,846 there is a rod... 142 00:15:17,049 --> 00:15:19,779 and from there we close the curtain... 143 00:15:20,119 --> 00:15:22,280 that way we don't see anything that's going on. 144 00:15:25,024 --> 00:15:26,926 When my mom works in the room... 145 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:28,757 we go up on the roof and play there. 146 00:15:39,471 --> 00:15:42,736 It's a lot better to fly a kite in the evening. 147 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,521 I live here with my grandmother... 148 00:16:41,533 --> 00:16:45,162 because my mother can't take care of me. 149 00:16:47,706 --> 00:16:50,334 My father tried to sell me. 150 00:16:52,044 --> 00:16:56,879 If my sister didn't come to get me, my father would have sold me. 151 00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:05,812 I worry that I might become like them. 152 00:17:23,475 --> 00:17:26,535 Kochi is very shy and demure. 153 00:17:26,612 --> 00:17:30,013 So if somebody is gonna force her into prostitution she's not going to say no. 154 00:17:30,082 --> 00:17:32,016 She's never said no in her life. 155 00:17:32,918 --> 00:17:36,046 So you can imagine what's going to happen to her very soon. 156 00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:45,428 The children ask me for help. They ask for it all the time. 157 00:17:46,198 --> 00:17:48,666 And it's heartbreaking, there's so little I can do... 158 00:17:48,801 --> 00:17:50,530 all I can do is try. 159 00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:56,633 Why do you want to put her in our boarding school? 160 00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:59,909 Kochi has a very hard life. 161 00:17:59,978 --> 00:18:03,971 From 4 o'clock in the morning, she works with me cleaning houses. 162 00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:07,177 She works so hard that she doesn't even have time to rest. 163 00:18:07,453 --> 00:18:11,253 But now she makes some money cleaning houses. 164 00:18:11,490 --> 00:18:14,982 If she gets into the home. 165 00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:17,927 That money won't be there anymore. 166 00:18:18,797 --> 00:18:20,890 Yes, true... 167 00:18:22,301 --> 00:18:24,667 but I'll manage it somehow. 168 00:18:25,304 --> 00:18:27,397 Why did you bring her in and not her mother? 169 00:18:27,539 --> 00:18:29,632 She's sitting right over there. 170 00:18:31,977 --> 00:18:33,245 There's... 171 00:18:33,245 --> 00:18:35,975 no problem with her mother... 172 00:18:36,248 --> 00:18:38,307 just that she's temperamental. 173 00:18:38,550 --> 00:18:41,610 She's lost six sons, her husband died too. 174 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:44,923 She tried to kill herself by jumping off the howrah bridge. 175 00:18:44,990 --> 00:18:49,017 Since then, she doesn't behave normally. 176 00:18:49,228 --> 00:18:50,923 Was there any treatment for her? 177 00:18:50,996 --> 00:18:54,432 Yes, there was, but they said she has emotional problems. 178 00:18:54,666 --> 00:18:57,294 Maybe it will get better over time. 179 00:18:57,836 --> 00:18:59,671 So, you want to admit Kochi in the boarding school... 180 00:18:59,671 --> 00:19:00,660 yes. 181 00:19:01,106 --> 00:19:04,439 Yes, I want Kochi to fill in the application... 182 00:19:04,943 --> 00:19:08,310 and I want her to go to the boarding school and study. 183 00:19:09,581 --> 00:19:11,378 It would be good if she could study. 184 00:19:12,518 --> 00:19:15,009 But we have certain rules and regulations over here... 185 00:19:15,087 --> 00:19:16,588 I can't... 186 00:19:16,588 --> 00:19:18,215 promise anything. 187 00:19:18,690 --> 00:19:22,285 But we'll take in the application. 188 00:19:22,761 --> 00:19:26,458 We need three copies of her photograph... 189 00:19:26,698 --> 00:19:28,800 passport size... 190 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,961 and the grades from her school. 191 00:19:35,908 --> 00:19:37,170 Babu... 192 00:19:37,409 --> 00:19:42,176 finding her papers without her brother's help is difficult. 193 00:20:05,637 --> 00:20:08,504 I have eaten and I will throw up! 194 00:20:08,740 --> 00:20:10,207 Move! 195 00:20:11,944 --> 00:20:14,469 You're taking them on a visit to the zoo? 196 00:20:18,283 --> 00:20:20,308 Son of a swine, sit! 197 00:20:21,954 --> 00:20:24,218 Avijit won't let me sit in his lap. 198 00:20:25,290 --> 00:20:29,351 This is even hurting me! Riding like this tends to hurt. 199 00:20:32,097 --> 00:20:33,165 Wow! 200 00:20:33,165 --> 00:20:34,496 Look that building! 201 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,370 I'm gonna take a picture to. 202 00:20:48,013 --> 00:20:51,141 Faster, faster. They're going to beat us! 203 00:21:03,495 --> 00:21:06,259 Why don't you go faster? You're going so slowly! 204 00:21:35,093 --> 00:21:36,856 Am I doing it right? 205 00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:17,628 The animals in the zoo are shut in their cages... 206 00:22:18,537 --> 00:22:22,064 they are fed only once a day, and that too just a little. 207 00:22:36,755 --> 00:22:38,590 The elephant is running towards us. 208 00:22:38,590 --> 00:22:39,454 He must be hungry. 209 00:22:40,292 --> 00:22:43,523 People feed them plastic bags. 210 00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:45,864 The animals don't know. 211 00:22:45,864 --> 00:22:48,025 They think it's food and eat it up... 212 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:50,393 which is harmful for their health. 213 00:23:33,478 --> 00:23:35,673 You shot two rolls of film which is very good. 214 00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:39,213 But the pictures all came out blank which was not very good. 215 00:23:39,951 --> 00:23:42,579 - Why? - Because you went out at night, right? 216 00:23:44,523 --> 00:23:45,590 You should know by now... 217 00:23:45,590 --> 00:23:49,959 you can't shoot at night without a flash. 218 00:23:50,462 --> 00:23:52,020 I had absolutely forgotten. 219 00:23:53,932 --> 00:23:55,233 What are they doing? 220 00:23:55,233 --> 00:23:56,928 They're carrying a dead man to the graveyard... 221 00:23:57,335 --> 00:24:00,862 when you pass away, i'll carry you just like that. 222 00:24:03,208 --> 00:24:05,143 Yeah, right. You'll die way before me! 223 00:24:05,143 --> 00:24:06,610 No, I won't! 224 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:26,291 One day, I opened the camera and the whole roll got burnt... 225 00:24:26,364 --> 00:24:28,229 so I don't open it anymore. 226 00:24:34,139 --> 00:24:36,630 She's really good at photographing on the street... 227 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:39,400 and no one has really done that in her neighborhood. 228 00:24:39,644 --> 00:24:42,881 Like outside her house. And she's very bold. 229 00:24:42,881 --> 00:24:45,349 Tell her that you know how people get angry on the street... 230 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,952 but she's so bold she gets away with it. 231 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,950 She's one of the few people in the class. 232 00:24:50,055 --> 00:24:51,989 Generally, people get angry if shots are taken on the roads. 233 00:24:52,057 --> 00:24:54,116 No, nobody gets mad at me. 234 00:24:55,527 --> 00:24:58,257 Yeah, because she is very strong. 235 00:24:58,964 --> 00:25:02,661 One girl got mad and said: "Why did you take my picture?" 236 00:25:02,901 --> 00:25:06,598 She tore up her picture and said: "Give me the negative!" 237 00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:08,901 I said: "heck, no negatives". 238 00:25:08,974 --> 00:25:11,169 Then I walked away, she said nothing. 239 00:25:12,744 --> 00:25:15,975 The greatgrandmother, the grandmother the mother are prostitutes... 240 00:25:16,248 --> 00:25:18,148 but they have better surroundings. 241 00:25:18,250 --> 00:25:21,083 It's a brahman family, they're very sort of regal... 242 00:25:21,253 --> 00:25:23,221 because she eats well, she's dressed well... 243 00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:25,117 she's not obviously poor... 244 00:25:25,357 --> 00:25:27,257 but she's heading for prostitution. 245 00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:32,254 Pest of a bird. 246 00:25:32,964 --> 00:25:34,488 Is she always this quiet? 247 00:25:34,566 --> 00:25:36,534 Quiet? My god! 248 00:25:37,068 --> 00:25:38,535 She never listens to me. 249 00:25:39,671 --> 00:25:41,161 She never listens to me. 250 00:25:41,907 --> 00:25:43,534 My mother is lying a lot. 251 00:25:46,478 --> 00:25:47,946 She said her mom is lying. 252 00:25:47,946 --> 00:25:49,314 Just ask my grandmother. 253 00:25:49,314 --> 00:25:51,149 She's asked to ask her grandmother. 254 00:25:51,149 --> 00:25:52,450 Oh my God... 255 00:25:52,450 --> 00:25:54,918 how much has to be done! 256 00:25:55,954 --> 00:25:58,023 My voice will crack... 257 00:25:58,023 --> 00:26:00,150 and hands will ache. 258 00:26:04,329 --> 00:26:08,060 I like the way Puja behaves. 259 00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:12,329 Whenever she eats something, she shares it with others. 260 00:26:12,470 --> 00:26:14,267 You don't even have to ask. 261 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,507 One day, I went to Puja's house and saw her dad beating up her mom. 262 00:26:20,879 --> 00:26:22,642 I asked Puja about it... 263 00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:24,182 she said... 264 00:26:24,182 --> 00:26:27,913 "my mom didn't give money to my dad for his drinking... 265 00:26:28,153 --> 00:26:31,179 so he beat her". 266 00:26:32,691 --> 00:26:37,924 I wish I could take puja away from here. 267 00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:40,624 When she grows up, she'll end up on the streets. 268 00:26:40,865 --> 00:26:45,461 She'll do drugs and snatch people's money. 269 00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:02,820 It's my picture. 270 00:27:02,887 --> 00:27:04,650 Why do you think it is yours? 271 00:27:04,990 --> 00:27:06,321 It was taken with my camera. 272 00:27:06,391 --> 00:27:08,723 I know! But just because it's your camera... 273 00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:10,852 doesn't mean it's your photo. 274 00:27:14,532 --> 00:27:17,899 A composition means how you put shapes into the box. 275 00:27:18,203 --> 00:27:19,864 The lines of a picture. 276 00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:22,868 These are all very, very good compositions. 277 00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:26,311 You can see everything that is going on around. 278 00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:28,404 There's so much information in this picture. 279 00:27:28,513 --> 00:27:30,504 There's layers of people in the foreground... 280 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:33,275 middle, back... and it's just a beautiful photograph. 281 00:27:38,923 --> 00:27:39,981 Suchitra! 282 00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:41,986 Tell us about your picture. 283 00:27:43,962 --> 00:27:46,487 This is my friend's sister. 284 00:27:46,965 --> 00:27:50,401 One day, she was drying clothes on the terrace... 285 00:27:51,002 --> 00:27:53,129 she asked me to take her photo... 286 00:27:53,371 --> 00:27:55,305 so I got irritated and took the picture. 287 00:28:00,078 --> 00:28:02,103 Suchitra's mother is dead. 288 00:28:03,715 --> 00:28:08,015 But her aunt wants to send her to Bombay to work "in the line". 289 00:28:10,021 --> 00:28:12,581 She's talked to me about it many times... 290 00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:15,357 and asked me not to tell anyone. 291 00:28:20,065 --> 00:28:22,659 I know about her family... 292 00:28:24,202 --> 00:28:27,262 she has pressure on her. 293 00:28:27,472 --> 00:28:30,066 All the girls in Suchitra's house are in the line. 294 00:28:30,141 --> 00:28:32,974 That's why she never goes. 295 00:28:33,044 --> 00:28:37,140 Suchitra's aunt will put her in the line because she'll make money on her. 296 00:28:38,116 --> 00:28:41,108 Do you see any solution to all this? 297 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:45,488 No. 298 00:29:29,534 --> 00:29:32,628 One of the girls was already married off at age 11. 299 00:29:33,104 --> 00:29:35,868 Another was forced into prostitution at age 14. 300 00:29:36,074 --> 00:29:37,507 These are all my students. 301 00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:40,703 They have absolutely no opportunity without education. 302 00:29:42,714 --> 00:29:45,046 The question is can I find a school? A good school... 303 00:29:45,183 --> 00:29:48,949 that will take kids that are children of prostitutes. 304 00:29:58,930 --> 00:30:01,866 I'm totally independent. I've been living and working... 305 00:30:01,866 --> 00:30:04,858 in the red light district in north calcutta for a number of years. 306 00:30:04,936 --> 00:30:08,030 - Which red light district? - Ramagana Sonogachi. 307 00:30:08,506 --> 00:30:10,508 Where you've been living for a number of years? 308 00:30:10,508 --> 00:30:14,045 On and off, so I've been teaching well. Basically. 309 00:30:14,045 --> 00:30:17,378 I'm a photographer and I've been photographing the lives of the women... 310 00:30:17,448 --> 00:30:19,143 and I got very close to the children... 311 00:30:19,250 --> 00:30:22,048 and I started teaching them photography two years ago. 312 00:30:22,220 --> 00:30:24,322 There's one group I'm very close to... 313 00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:26,517 and I'm trying to get them out of the brothels. 314 00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:29,694 Trying to find schools, good schools for them, but... 315 00:30:29,694 --> 00:30:31,696 I'm looking for a boarding school... 316 00:30:31,696 --> 00:30:34,221 cause otherwise they go back to the red light district and then... 317 00:30:34,299 --> 00:30:36,859 one of the girls was already forced into prostitution. 318 00:30:37,335 --> 00:30:39,370 These kids want to be out of there. 319 00:30:39,370 --> 00:30:41,668 Are there any boarding schools that will take them? 320 00:30:41,873 --> 00:30:44,865 Cause I found that people don't want to deal with children of sex workers. 321 00:30:45,076 --> 00:30:47,909 No place is the right place. Nobody will take them. 322 00:30:48,146 --> 00:30:49,272 Who will take them? 323 00:31:46,938 --> 00:31:48,506 I take pictures to show... 324 00:31:48,506 --> 00:31:50,531 how people in this city live. 325 00:31:52,243 --> 00:31:55,371 People here live in chaos. 326 00:31:58,416 --> 00:31:59,017 In the village... 327 00:31:59,017 --> 00:32:02,976 people may have a mud house, but they are happy. 328 00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:07,951 Nobody lives as filthily as we do in our country. 329 00:32:09,961 --> 00:32:12,987 Wherever there are dirty plates, we find shoes right next to them. 330 00:32:13,064 --> 00:32:15,624 In no other country have I seen this. 331 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:18,992 That is why I like photography... 332 00:32:19,070 --> 00:32:21,538 I want to put across the behavior of man. 333 00:32:22,941 --> 00:32:26,274 Whose pictures do you think are better, yours or Manik's? 334 00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:28,944 Avijit's. 335 00:32:38,022 --> 00:32:40,217 When a camera is in my hands... 336 00:32:40,658 --> 00:32:43,456 I can take a picture of someone... 337 00:32:43,661 --> 00:32:46,289 who has gone away, died or been lost. 338 00:32:46,531 --> 00:32:48,931 And have something that I'll be able to look at... 339 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,059 for the rest of my life. 340 00:32:57,408 --> 00:32:59,273 I like to draw pictures... 341 00:32:59,544 --> 00:33:03,207 because I want to express what's on my mind. 342 00:33:06,217 --> 00:33:10,950 I want to put my thoughts into colors. 343 00:33:13,725 --> 00:33:17,354 Come and see all that my grandson has won because of his paintings. 344 00:33:17,628 --> 00:33:20,028 This one is full. The box below is full. 345 00:33:20,098 --> 00:33:23,067 All these boxes are full of awards that he has won. 346 00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:27,530 He has drawn and won everything. 347 00:33:28,973 --> 00:33:32,909 When he was small... it's a picture of that time. 348 00:33:35,179 --> 00:33:37,909 Avijit's picture as a baby. 349 00:33:39,984 --> 00:33:42,885 I love this, because it's a self portrait... 350 00:33:43,154 --> 00:33:45,179 but you can also see the street. 351 00:33:45,456 --> 00:33:47,048 You can see the environment where he is. 352 00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:51,488 He's just got so many different kinds of pictures on this one contact sheet. 353 00:33:51,696 --> 00:33:54,893 And the details here, the windows, the shutters and wires. 354 00:33:55,566 --> 00:33:58,899 So many different angles, and things in the foreground, and background... 355 00:33:58,970 --> 00:34:01,461 and men sleeping and walking and everything. 356 00:34:02,006 --> 00:34:04,270 Just a very good contact sheet. 357 00:34:07,078 --> 00:34:09,569 In our room, liquor is sold... 358 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:12,213 almost first thing in the morning. 359 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,882 The men drink and then go to the girls... 360 00:34:18,523 --> 00:34:21,424 give them some money, and spend time with them. 361 00:34:23,194 --> 00:34:25,958 Some men drink and don't pay. 362 00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:31,058 Then I have to go after them and be mean... 363 00:34:32,937 --> 00:34:35,132 because that's all we have. 364 00:34:41,579 --> 00:34:43,877 My father's name is sunil halder... 365 00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:46,580 and he is almost forty. 366 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,551 When I was two, he married my mother, and at that point... 367 00:34:52,657 --> 00:34:54,989 another man got my father addicted to smoking hash. 368 00:34:57,095 --> 00:34:58,960 At the time... 369 00:34:59,197 --> 00:35:03,327 a man got my father adicted to hashish. 370 00:35:05,903 --> 00:35:07,894 In the past... 371 00:35:09,974 --> 00:35:14,877 my father was a very good man. 372 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,875 He used to be very fat... 373 00:35:17,982 --> 00:35:21,145 and he could easily beat up two men at one time. 374 00:35:21,419 --> 00:35:22,909 He was well known and even now... 375 00:35:22,987 --> 00:35:24,922 if his name is mentioned in the bazaar... 376 00:35:24,922 --> 00:35:26,355 people recognize him. 377 00:35:26,591 --> 00:35:30,652 But now, my mother has left and he just smokes all day. 378 00:35:33,698 --> 00:35:36,929 That is why nobody pays attention to my father. 379 00:35:38,503 --> 00:35:39,902 But even then... 380 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:43,107 I try to love him a little. 381 00:35:54,118 --> 00:35:56,245 My mom lives in the village. 382 00:35:56,654 --> 00:35:59,282 Nobody cares about her. 383 00:36:04,262 --> 00:36:07,629 My mom used to say jokingly... 384 00:36:07,899 --> 00:36:11,232 "I'm going to send you to London to study". 385 00:36:11,469 --> 00:36:16,429 We don't have the money to live, let alone for studies. 386 00:36:57,148 --> 00:36:59,013 Hurry up. The bus is here. 387 00:37:00,251 --> 00:37:01,912 Hurry. Everyone's waiting. 388 00:37:02,753 --> 00:37:04,653 I've been waiting for such a long time. 389 00:37:08,259 --> 00:37:10,955 Can I sit by the window? I want to take pictures. 390 00:37:11,028 --> 00:37:12,086 Everybody is finally here. We can leave. 391 00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:15,157 - We're leaving. Let's go! - One minute! 392 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:16,860 One minute. One minute. 393 00:37:16,968 --> 00:37:18,367 One minute. One minute. 394 00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:22,232 Could you ask everyone if they've got their cameras cause I don't see them all. 395 00:37:23,507 --> 00:37:24,337 Okay. 396 00:37:29,947 --> 00:37:31,209 We're leaving. 397 00:38:26,203 --> 00:38:27,261 Look at the water! 398 00:38:27,571 --> 00:38:29,038 There are animals there. 399 00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:47,574 Look at the ocean! 400 00:39:48,652 --> 00:39:49,949 Gour! 401 00:39:50,588 --> 00:39:52,647 It's you and me! 402 00:40:04,902 --> 00:40:07,462 A big one is coming! 403 00:40:13,611 --> 00:40:16,876 This time we're gonna get wet. 404 00:41:10,034 --> 00:41:11,262 Take a picture of me. 405 00:41:29,386 --> 00:41:32,014 Look at the sky. The moon! 406 00:44:15,085 --> 00:44:16,484 Let me go! 407 00:44:17,087 --> 00:44:18,418 Let me go! 408 00:44:22,359 --> 00:44:23,656 Let me go! 409 00:44:24,061 --> 00:44:27,360 Beat that son of a bitch. Beat the son of a cunt fucking bitch. 410 00:44:27,631 --> 00:44:28,962 Oh god! 411 00:44:31,068 --> 00:44:35,129 You aren't the only one who's brought up kids. 412 00:44:35,906 --> 00:44:37,999 Naked fucking whore... 413 00:44:38,075 --> 00:44:41,476 giving out all the time in your room. 414 00:44:41,645 --> 00:44:43,875 I'll have you and fucking Latka thrown out! 415 00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:48,447 Acting the part of a butt fucking saintly wife! 416 00:44:48,952 --> 00:44:51,648 If we are sluts, what are you? 417 00:44:51,955 --> 00:44:54,890 You are twice the sluts we are. 418 00:44:55,125 --> 00:44:56,558 Do you hear me... 419 00:44:56,994 --> 00:44:59,895 or do you have a dick in your ear? 420 00:45:00,264 --> 00:45:04,064 You fucked your son and your grandson. 421 00:45:04,435 --> 00:45:06,300 Go and fuck your ass. 422 00:45:06,937 --> 00:45:09,497 I'll give it to the motherfucker. 423 00:45:10,974 --> 00:45:14,967 You get angry at him and take it out on us. 424 00:45:17,147 --> 00:45:18,136 Get over here. 425 00:45:20,417 --> 00:45:24,911 Pretending to be saintly in Sonagachi! 426 00:45:31,628 --> 00:45:34,563 I'm not a social worker. I'm not a teacher, even. 427 00:45:34,965 --> 00:45:38,128 That's my fear, you know, that I really can't do anything. 428 00:45:38,235 --> 00:45:42,001 And that even helping them to get an education is not going to do anything. 429 00:45:42,206 --> 00:45:44,470 But without help, they're doomed. 430 00:45:47,978 --> 00:45:51,209 I can try to find a boarding school for you... 431 00:45:51,482 --> 00:45:53,177 but you will have to study. 432 00:45:53,383 --> 00:45:56,147 He never studies. He only plays with his kites. 433 00:45:57,988 --> 00:46:00,047 So do you want to go to a boarding school? 434 00:46:02,326 --> 00:46:04,851 Do you want to go to a better school? 435 00:46:06,530 --> 00:46:10,489 You'll have to work hard and improve your grades. 436 00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:26,208 We're going to go and find out exactly what we need for the school applications. 437 00:46:26,917 --> 00:46:30,114 I've got the original birth certificates, xeroxes of the birth certificates. 438 00:46:30,354 --> 00:46:34,415 The reason this is so difficult is cause their parents cannot be criminals. 439 00:46:34,858 --> 00:46:36,485 And their parents are all criminals. 440 00:46:36,894 --> 00:46:40,330 They're all prostitutes, dealing drugs, selling alcohol illegally. 441 00:46:40,898 --> 00:46:41,956 I don't understand, you know. 442 00:46:42,032 --> 00:46:44,364 Everyday. Come tomorrow, it will be done. 443 00:46:45,035 --> 00:46:48,027 You said it would be done today. You promised it would be done today. 444 00:46:48,438 --> 00:46:52,397 You promised it would be done last tuesday. You can't put a stamp on this? 445 00:46:54,278 --> 00:46:56,838 - What is his father's name? - Sunil. 446 00:46:57,548 --> 00:47:01,507 He spells it with a "v". It's on his birth certificate as a "v". 447 00:47:02,152 --> 00:47:04,586 The original ration card says "v". 448 00:47:05,622 --> 00:47:06,987 V. I. 449 00:47:09,393 --> 00:47:11,293 Aiy, v. I. V. V. 450 00:47:12,462 --> 00:47:16,922 First you have to make an application saying that I lost my card. 451 00:47:17,835 --> 00:47:21,430 Take it to the ration officer at Amherst Street, Calcutta. 452 00:47:22,072 --> 00:47:26,168 Then he will forward you a letter after putting a stamp on it. 453 00:47:27,377 --> 00:47:30,972 Then you make another report and take it to the police. 454 00:47:31,148 --> 00:47:34,948 Once it is brought back here, you will be given another form. 455 00:47:39,590 --> 00:47:43,686 Then fill that form in and bring it back to this office. 456 00:47:45,195 --> 00:47:48,562 I just wanna know how long it's supposed to take once you have all this stuff. 457 00:47:51,335 --> 00:47:52,962 Seven days to a month. 458 00:47:53,937 --> 00:47:56,167 I could kill this ration guy. 459 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,526 So now you die here, stupid! Die, die. 460 00:48:21,999 --> 00:48:23,933 She always has to get her way. 461 00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,727 So I need to go over everything that they need because I don't, I don't... 462 00:49:00,837 --> 00:49:03,863 - yeah, birth certificates. - I have birth certificates. 463 00:49:05,943 --> 00:49:07,934 And ration cards. 464 00:49:08,078 --> 00:49:11,741 They don't, I mean, if I have to go to that ration card office again... 465 00:49:11,982 --> 00:49:14,473 I think I'll just jump off a bridge. 466 00:49:15,652 --> 00:49:17,415 Oh my god. I've already... 467 00:49:18,989 --> 00:49:19,921 okay. 468 00:49:20,691 --> 00:49:22,955 Medical certificate, some sort of medical certificate. 469 00:49:23,026 --> 00:49:25,017 Are they HIV positive? 470 00:49:25,696 --> 00:49:26,720 I have no idea. 471 00:49:27,064 --> 00:49:29,965 Do you think it would be possible that they might be carriers? 472 00:49:30,033 --> 00:49:33,400 Yes, definitely. It's clearly possible, I don't know. 473 00:49:33,870 --> 00:49:36,270 I mean, i'll do it, if you want, but I don't know. 474 00:49:36,406 --> 00:49:39,239 Just get a medical certification. 475 00:49:40,177 --> 00:49:42,304 So I'll have to take them to the doctor. 476 00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:50,954 Kianti: Bad news. 477 00:49:51,955 --> 00:49:53,547 Potentially devastating news. 478 00:49:54,424 --> 00:49:58,190 She called and she said that the medical tests are compulsory... 479 00:49:58,428 --> 00:50:01,886 and they can't move ahead until I have the results of the hiv tests. 480 00:50:01,965 --> 00:50:04,126 And that if they have hiv, they won't take them. 481 00:50:10,374 --> 00:50:12,205 - You'll just take a little blood, right? - Yes... 482 00:50:12,275 --> 00:50:13,970 you won't even notice. 483 00:50:15,345 --> 00:50:16,937 Like an ant bite? 484 00:50:17,014 --> 00:50:19,278 Not even an ant bite. 485 00:50:22,152 --> 00:50:23,710 Injections, god. 486 00:50:25,555 --> 00:50:28,149 - I don't like shots. - It won't hurt... 487 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,921 just like an ant bite. Like candy. 488 00:50:31,995 --> 00:50:34,054 Yeah, right, just like candy. 489 00:50:45,242 --> 00:50:48,006 Now I'm gonna tie the band. 490 00:50:48,445 --> 00:50:51,505 - Is it tight? It has to be. Does it hurt? - A little bit. 491 00:50:53,483 --> 00:50:56,543 - It hurts! - No no, it won't hurt at all. 492 00:50:57,654 --> 00:50:59,053 It is hurting! 493 00:51:06,196 --> 00:51:08,130 Let's see this vein. 494 00:51:08,498 --> 00:51:09,658 I'm afraid. 495 00:51:20,710 --> 00:51:22,268 Take it easy. We're done. 496 00:51:24,681 --> 00:51:25,705 Perfect. 497 00:51:26,083 --> 00:51:27,072 That's it. 498 00:51:27,684 --> 00:51:28,912 Very good. 499 00:51:28,985 --> 00:51:32,216 Keep your arm like this and hold it tight. 500 00:51:38,428 --> 00:51:40,862 Good news. They're all negative. 501 00:51:43,934 --> 00:51:44,958 Very happy. 502 00:52:21,171 --> 00:52:25,699 Does her mother have to tell her to work? 503 00:52:26,643 --> 00:52:29,441 I'll throw you out, you little bitch. 504 00:52:31,481 --> 00:52:37,053 I like her, but sometimes she says such mean things. 505 00:52:37,053 --> 00:52:40,045 But I don't care. After all, she's my mother. 506 00:52:45,462 --> 00:52:49,023 I know what she does for work... 507 00:52:49,299 --> 00:52:52,063 and I feel bad talking about these things. 508 00:52:55,906 --> 00:52:58,670 I don't want to say it, but the more I'm growing up... 509 00:52:58,975 --> 00:53:02,433 the older ma is getting. 510 00:53:04,014 --> 00:53:06,380 She'll pass away someday. 511 00:53:06,650 --> 00:53:09,483 I have a small sister. I'll have to take care of her. 512 00:53:10,086 --> 00:53:13,988 My sister has taken four pictures like this. 513 00:53:59,903 --> 00:54:01,894 Right now, I'm looking for grant money. 514 00:54:01,972 --> 00:54:03,906 My goal now is, I mean, is to teach them... 515 00:54:04,107 --> 00:54:07,167 but also to raise money for them using their own photography... 516 00:54:07,944 --> 00:54:11,141 selling their photographs to raise money for them. 517 00:54:12,549 --> 00:54:16,110 Amnesty International is going to use the kids'photos for their calendar. 518 00:54:16,419 --> 00:54:18,910 And the photos are being auctioned at Sotheby's. 519 00:54:20,957 --> 00:54:23,425 The whole point of this is to get the kids out of the brothels. 520 00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:30,494 It's Shantis photograph. 521 00:54:49,653 --> 00:54:52,315 I don't know if you know Robert pledge from contact Press Images... 522 00:54:52,422 --> 00:54:54,822 but he's come out to teach the kids. 523 00:54:54,924 --> 00:54:57,256 He runs a pretty major photo agency in New York City. 524 00:54:58,028 --> 00:55:01,623 He's become very involved in the project, and very supportive. 525 00:55:02,999 --> 00:55:06,935 Can you all look here and tell me if there are other pictures... 526 00:55:07,037 --> 00:55:10,973 in this series that any one of you like particularly. 527 00:55:13,943 --> 00:55:15,205 - And uh... - sorry. 528 00:55:16,012 --> 00:55:20,881 When I first saw this picture it was very strange because... 529 00:55:20,984 --> 00:55:24,977 the tone of the sky has almost joined with the tone of the real paper. 530 00:55:25,255 --> 00:55:29,021 It looks like the body starts from the top of the paper... 531 00:55:29,626 --> 00:55:34,393 almost as if the top half of her body didn't really exist! 532 00:55:34,998 --> 00:55:37,432 So I was very surprised when I saw it... 533 00:55:38,435 --> 00:55:40,232 for the first time. 534 00:55:44,974 --> 00:55:47,204 Avijit is very, very exceptional. 535 00:55:47,644 --> 00:55:48,975 Very special. 536 00:55:49,212 --> 00:55:52,045 He has a natural talent. And... 537 00:55:52,315 --> 00:55:57,116 this organization in Holland, called The World Press Photo Foundation... 538 00:55:57,987 --> 00:56:01,923 every year invites nine children from all over the world... 539 00:56:02,625 --> 00:56:05,185 to come and spend one week in Amsterdam... 540 00:56:05,562 --> 00:56:07,462 and look at photographs... 541 00:56:07,997 --> 00:56:11,160 that are made by 4,000 photographers all over the world. 542 00:56:11,468 --> 00:56:14,494 And one of our ideas is to get... 543 00:56:14,938 --> 00:56:18,999 Avijit to come and be the child photographer from India... 544 00:56:19,075 --> 00:56:22,875 to be present at this show. And this is a very special thing. 545 00:56:23,179 --> 00:56:26,444 As a grandmother, you should feel very happy and very proud. 546 00:56:31,321 --> 00:56:33,516 If you are pleased, so are we. 547 00:56:34,124 --> 00:56:38,618 So far we've had two exhibitions in NY, but you haven't been able to be there. 548 00:56:38,895 --> 00:56:39,396 So... 549 00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:42,923 I've organized an exhibition at the oxford bookstore on park street... 550 00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:44,958 of your photographs. 551 00:56:45,201 --> 00:56:47,260 Only of your photographs. And... 552 00:56:48,071 --> 00:56:50,437 so you will all be the guests of honor. 553 00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,338 You're mothers are invited as well, so all of your... 554 00:56:53,476 --> 00:56:56,639 ma can't come, she has to cook. 555 00:56:57,981 --> 00:56:59,209 What is it? 556 00:57:00,016 --> 00:57:02,280 An invitation to the exhibition. 557 00:57:04,954 --> 00:57:06,888 Who is the second one for? Mother? 558 00:57:07,123 --> 00:57:08,920 Mother can't go. 559 00:57:09,592 --> 00:57:11,059 Because of the baby. 560 00:57:11,594 --> 00:57:13,357 Will Tapasi have to go? 561 00:57:13,897 --> 00:57:16,889 If anybody looks after the baby, they want 10 rupees. 562 00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:19,331 We don't have it. 563 00:57:19,502 --> 00:57:21,663 Nobody here understands anything but money. 564 00:57:22,572 --> 00:57:25,439 Every morning I read just one palm, not all day. 565 00:57:25,575 --> 00:57:27,975 Do mine, do mine! 566 00:57:28,912 --> 00:57:31,005 Will I get a lot of money? 567 00:57:39,222 --> 00:57:42,055 No, money will not remain with you. 568 00:57:47,497 --> 00:57:48,896 Look at his hair! 569 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,331 There it is! 570 00:57:52,735 --> 00:57:54,930 Oh, they're all here. Amazing. 571 00:57:55,004 --> 00:57:57,939 - How are you? - I am very well, thank you. How are you? 572 00:57:59,709 --> 00:58:01,939 In yesterday's newspaper... 573 00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:04,041 there's an article. 574 00:58:04,147 --> 00:58:08,948 You are published on the front page of the biggest newspaper in India. 575 00:58:10,420 --> 00:58:12,285 World famous. 576 00:58:12,722 --> 00:58:15,282 I'm gonna show you the pictures we're gonna put on the wall. 577 00:58:15,425 --> 00:58:17,256 - Who's picture is this? - Shanti. 578 00:58:17,527 --> 00:58:19,324 Shanti. Like it? 579 00:58:21,231 --> 00:58:22,596 This is another picture. 580 00:58:24,334 --> 00:58:25,631 What do you think? 581 00:58:26,469 --> 00:58:28,869 It's so pretty! The moon looks so beautiful. 582 00:58:28,972 --> 00:58:30,462 This is... these are who's? 583 00:58:30,740 --> 00:58:31,968 Avijit. 584 00:58:42,285 --> 00:58:45,982 And the last picture is the one that's in the newspaper. 585 00:58:51,194 --> 00:58:52,991 That's it. Congratulations. 586 00:58:56,966 --> 00:58:58,399 Enough! Please, relax. 587 00:58:59,135 --> 00:59:01,695 And now, they get to sign the pictures. 588 00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:13,571 My hands are shaking. 589 00:59:21,257 --> 00:59:22,383 Zana auntie? 590 00:59:22,659 --> 00:59:25,594 There will be a lot of people at the Oxford Gallery, yes? 591 00:59:26,162 --> 00:59:27,629 Yes, lots of people. 592 00:59:29,599 --> 00:59:30,930 Here it is. 593 00:59:38,708 --> 00:59:39,868 Oh my God. 594 00:59:43,079 --> 00:59:43,943 Our pictures. 595 00:59:45,248 --> 00:59:46,408 That's us there. 596 00:59:51,020 --> 00:59:53,352 I like it very much. 597 00:59:53,590 --> 00:59:56,388 - I like it... - I like it... 598 00:59:56,626 --> 00:59:57,888 - very much. - Very much. 599 00:59:58,361 --> 00:59:59,453 This is her hand. 600 00:59:59,529 --> 01:00:02,020 Her hand in front of the camera. 601 01:00:11,975 --> 01:00:13,909 I shot this one and that one. 602 01:00:14,310 --> 01:00:15,504 Did you do it by yourself? 603 01:00:18,081 --> 01:00:21,073 At first I didn't really get it. 604 01:00:21,284 --> 01:00:25,414 But then Zana antie said: "Come on, saturday..." 605 01:00:25,655 --> 01:00:30,354 and I went and saw a camera for the first time. 606 01:00:30,627 --> 01:00:34,097 So we met Zana auntie and liked her... 607 01:00:34,097 --> 01:00:35,997 as soon as we saw her. 608 01:00:36,366 --> 01:00:39,858 And since then Zana auntie has been teaching us with a lot of interest. 609 01:00:42,905 --> 01:00:46,033 She teaches us so well that everything goes into our brain. 610 01:00:46,275 --> 01:00:48,211 We like doing photography so much... 611 01:00:48,211 --> 01:00:50,202 that we forget to do our work. 612 01:00:52,949 --> 01:00:55,008 What do you want to be when you grow up? 613 01:00:55,318 --> 01:00:57,582 I'm not sure... 614 01:00:58,187 --> 01:01:00,417 but I want to be a photographer. 615 01:01:00,623 --> 01:01:03,490 These photographs will now travel to different parts of the world. 616 01:01:03,726 --> 01:01:06,593 And the proceeds from these exhibitions will go to one single purpose... 617 01:01:06,763 --> 01:01:09,459 a decent education for the children, and hopefully a chance... 618 01:01:09,532 --> 01:01:12,467 to know a world outside of the red light areas of calcutta. 619 01:01:12,535 --> 01:01:14,230 Star news. 620 01:01:47,203 --> 01:01:48,898 Avijit's mother died. 621 01:01:49,138 --> 01:01:52,665 Some kind of kitchen explosion accident. I hope it wasn't... 622 01:01:57,380 --> 01:01:59,780 do you know how she died, what happened? 623 01:02:00,116 --> 01:02:03,483 Her pimp set fire to her in the kitchen. 624 01:02:03,820 --> 01:02:05,344 He burned her. 625 01:02:07,190 --> 01:02:10,682 That's what I thought, as soon as I heard kitchen accident. 626 01:02:10,927 --> 01:02:14,260 I'm very worried about him now with this news. 627 01:02:15,298 --> 01:02:16,890 Will there be any police? 628 01:02:18,234 --> 01:02:19,360 Nothing. 629 01:02:21,003 --> 01:02:22,129 So sad. 630 01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:32,309 I used to want to be a doctor. 631 01:02:36,886 --> 01:02:39,878 Then I wanted to become an artist. 632 01:02:44,026 --> 01:02:47,462 There is nothing called hope in my future. 633 01:02:55,938 --> 01:03:00,466 He isn't going to school at all. 634 01:03:01,410 --> 01:03:07,007 If he doesn't study, how will he grow up? 635 01:03:08,217 --> 01:03:10,879 He has to become someone of standing, he will have to grow up. 636 01:03:11,154 --> 01:03:15,022 Tell me, how will he do that if he doesn't study? 637 01:03:15,391 --> 01:03:16,915 I am studying. 638 01:03:17,660 --> 01:03:21,187 Even if he misses his mother... 639 01:03:21,430 --> 01:03:23,557 his exams are staring him in the face. 640 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,093 They start this wednesday. 641 01:03:31,340 --> 01:03:33,570 I'm always carrying his bags! 642 01:03:36,479 --> 01:03:38,174 Wait, wait, wait. I want to talk about this. 643 01:03:38,314 --> 01:03:39,906 Where's Avijit? 644 01:03:39,982 --> 01:03:42,382 He won't be coming today. 645 01:03:44,020 --> 01:03:45,851 He's gone out with friends. 646 01:03:46,923 --> 01:03:50,415 Everybody knows that Avijit is supposed to go to Amsterdam. 647 01:03:50,726 --> 01:03:52,328 He still hasn't got his passport... 648 01:03:52,328 --> 01:03:53,989 because there were a lot of problems. 649 01:03:54,063 --> 01:03:58,864 But if he goes, he's going to represent all of you and the photo class... 650 01:03:58,935 --> 01:04:00,926 and all of the hard work that you've been doing. 651 01:04:07,877 --> 01:04:09,401 Did they invited us in? 652 01:04:11,214 --> 01:04:13,341 - Why didn't you come today? - I went to art class. 653 01:04:13,583 --> 01:04:15,881 Why didn't you tell us you weren't coming? 654 01:04:16,319 --> 01:04:18,184 I didn't know... 655 01:04:19,021 --> 01:04:21,888 my friends had to come tell me. 656 01:04:22,358 --> 01:04:26,226 I want to get his two rolls of film. 657 01:04:26,729 --> 01:04:29,527 I go to study in the morning, then I go to school. 658 01:04:29,932 --> 01:04:32,992 In the afternoon I have no time, and in the evening it gets dark. 659 01:04:33,069 --> 01:04:35,936 He's got school in the morning and he's got school until five, right? 660 01:04:36,539 --> 01:04:39,940 What about your photography? You don't care? 661 01:04:40,209 --> 01:04:41,267 No. 662 01:04:41,944 --> 01:04:43,639 I'll do it later. 663 01:05:01,364 --> 01:05:04,162 I could not get a passport for that kid. 664 01:05:04,433 --> 01:05:06,993 I went through everything. I couldn't do it. 665 01:05:07,236 --> 01:05:08,863 Actually, it hasn't even been confirmed... 666 01:05:08,938 --> 01:05:12,669 so I can't even tell you his passport application has been accepted. 667 01:05:13,743 --> 01:05:16,610 There is no way to get this kid's passport... 668 01:05:16,746 --> 01:05:19,214 because he lives in the red light district. 669 01:05:19,548 --> 01:05:21,982 I'm afraid the whole thing's going to fall through because of... 670 01:05:22,218 --> 01:05:24,914 well, I'm afraid the whole thing's going to fall through too. 671 01:05:24,987 --> 01:05:28,946 Avijit hasn't shot anything at all, because he's just... somewhere else. 672 01:05:34,263 --> 01:05:35,423 You guys, you... 673 01:05:35,631 --> 01:05:37,462 and you, and you... 674 01:05:37,867 --> 01:05:40,495 have been accepted into a school. 675 01:05:46,108 --> 01:05:49,839 My granny will never let me go to a boarding school. 676 01:05:49,946 --> 01:05:51,880 I'm the only child. 677 01:05:53,049 --> 01:05:55,609 She can visit. It's not like it's far. 678 01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:00,480 Will we have to eat only veggie food there? 679 01:06:00,957 --> 01:06:02,925 Yuck, I don't like veggie food. 680 01:06:02,992 --> 01:06:05,119 Which is more important? 681 01:06:06,696 --> 01:06:10,188 Eating chicken or going to a good school? 682 01:06:40,296 --> 01:06:42,821 This is where they will keep their clothes... 683 01:06:42,965 --> 01:06:45,297 also, they will have to make their own beds. 684 01:06:45,534 --> 01:06:49,470 They help the small kids, but the big kids have to do it themselves. 685 01:06:49,872 --> 01:06:52,102 My daughter? She'll have to do it herself? 686 01:06:52,174 --> 01:06:53,835 She'll have to. 687 01:06:53,909 --> 01:06:57,174 But small kids won't have to. 688 01:06:58,681 --> 01:07:00,171 That's good. 689 01:07:01,917 --> 01:07:03,885 - I wanna use it too. - Hold on. 690 01:07:05,654 --> 01:07:07,554 Can't do it. What do I do? 691 01:07:08,290 --> 01:07:09,723 When I learn the computer... 692 01:07:09,792 --> 01:07:12,090 I can write to Zana auntie in America. 693 01:07:13,629 --> 01:07:17,963 If they're ready to admit the girls, they have to understand a few things. 694 01:07:18,467 --> 01:07:20,958 We want our girls to go to university. 695 01:07:24,940 --> 01:07:27,135 If they admit their kids here... 696 01:07:29,945 --> 01:07:31,970 the girl can be a doctor... 697 01:07:33,849 --> 01:07:35,282 can be an engineer... 698 01:07:35,985 --> 01:07:37,612 can be a lawyer... 699 01:07:38,154 --> 01:07:40,145 they will have a normal life. 700 01:07:40,389 --> 01:07:44,052 So there is one thing, very important, that I am asking now. 701 01:07:44,727 --> 01:07:46,929 They can admit the kids today. 702 01:07:46,929 --> 01:07:49,056 And they can remove the kids whenever they want. 703 01:07:49,298 --> 01:07:51,528 This is not a jail, they are free. 704 01:07:51,967 --> 01:07:55,095 But today, I want their verbal commitment... 705 01:07:55,538 --> 01:07:59,338 that they won't remove their kids until they finish their studies. 706 01:07:59,575 --> 01:08:01,440 It means another ten years. 707 01:08:02,311 --> 01:08:06,145 They have two or three holidays of ten days each, per year. 708 01:08:07,216 --> 01:08:09,912 But for example, when there are wedding ceremonies... 709 01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:12,917 when the grandma has died... 710 01:08:13,055 --> 01:08:15,023 or the birth of a nephew... 711 01:08:15,224 --> 01:08:17,192 no wedding ceremonies, no birthdays... 712 01:08:17,460 --> 01:08:19,951 no grandmothers, no dead bodies, nothing. 713 01:08:20,496 --> 01:08:23,021 For all these things, they cannot remove their kids. 714 01:08:23,299 --> 01:08:26,666 Their first priority is their studies, their schooling. 715 01:08:33,476 --> 01:08:35,944 Puja won't eat well by herself. 716 01:08:37,413 --> 01:08:39,176 She eats just fine. 717 01:08:42,418 --> 01:08:45,285 The fact is, Puja's mother spoils her a little. 718 01:08:45,521 --> 01:08:47,857 She has to learn to eat by herself. 719 01:08:47,857 --> 01:08:52,191 - They gave us so much rice and meat... - Baisakhi left half of it. 720 01:09:07,009 --> 01:09:09,671 - See you tomorrow. - Bye, bye. 721 01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:18,916 Are we getting off in front of our house? 722 01:09:20,422 --> 01:09:21,980 Stop the car. 723 01:09:27,096 --> 01:09:28,620 - Bye. - Bye. 724 01:09:30,332 --> 01:09:32,357 - Tomorrow, at eleven. - Bring your camera. 725 01:09:32,701 --> 01:09:36,705 You're coming tomorrow to our place to take her... 726 01:09:36,705 --> 01:09:38,332 right? 727 01:09:38,674 --> 01:09:41,302 Please, write me the address, okay? 728 01:10:02,498 --> 01:10:05,228 This guy, Tim Grandage, who runs Future Hope... 729 01:10:05,568 --> 01:10:08,537 only wants kids from bad backgrounds... 730 01:10:08,671 --> 01:10:11,663 so the children of sex workers. It's for boys only. 731 01:10:12,007 --> 01:10:14,840 And there's pretty much nowhere else for these kids to go. 732 01:10:14,877 --> 01:10:16,777 Nobody else will take them. 733 01:10:17,947 --> 01:10:21,041 I would say there are two that need to get out very urgently. 734 01:10:21,283 --> 01:10:22,580 Do they know each other? 735 01:10:22,851 --> 01:10:24,614 Yeah, they live in the same brothel. 736 01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:27,680 - Which one you're most worried about? - Avijit. 737 01:10:27,756 --> 01:10:29,858 I mean, Avijit always's asking me... 738 01:10:29,858 --> 01:10:33,021 he says I hate it here, I can't do anything here, I can't study. 739 01:10:33,262 --> 01:10:37,323 His one grandmother, think, really cares for him but has no control over him. 740 01:10:37,666 --> 01:10:42,433 His grandfather and his father are just sort of not effective at all. 741 01:10:42,972 --> 01:10:48,171 I think he's gonna turn out to be a real bad kid soon if he doesn't get real help. 742 01:10:48,911 --> 01:10:51,436 He's got an ego, for sure. 743 01:10:52,114 --> 01:10:54,878 I think if he's in the right environment he'll also... 744 01:10:54,950 --> 01:10:57,180 he wants to be good. But he has no guidance. 745 01:10:57,519 --> 01:11:00,977 In the last few weeks he's had a real change of heart about everything. 746 01:11:01,056 --> 01:11:04,548 And he seems to be pretty apathetic. I think he's reached a critical point... 747 01:11:05,027 --> 01:11:07,996 and if he doesn't get out of there really soon, he's lost. 748 01:11:08,097 --> 01:11:11,533 That's how i'm feeling about avijit. He's a very bright kid, very talented. 749 01:11:12,201 --> 01:11:16,865 Give us five minutes. Give us a chance and let us chat next door. 750 01:11:17,773 --> 01:11:19,900 - Give us five minutes. - Ok, thank you. 751 01:11:24,013 --> 01:11:26,481 If you don't have a good foundation, you can't build. 752 01:11:27,016 --> 01:11:29,348 But they have to start at a certain standard. 753 01:11:29,518 --> 01:11:31,679 And if you work hard, then you go up very quickly. 754 01:11:31,854 --> 01:11:35,051 I'm not going if... 755 01:11:35,257 --> 01:11:37,885 they put me back two grades. 756 01:11:41,730 --> 01:11:44,096 Isn't it better to be with good people that care about you? 757 01:11:44,300 --> 01:11:47,895 And that want to teach you well? Than a number? 758 01:11:51,006 --> 01:11:52,405 But, you know, it's up to you. 759 01:11:52,675 --> 01:11:55,075 I wanna go to school. 760 01:11:56,912 --> 01:11:59,176 And as for you, if you want to go... 761 01:11:59,348 --> 01:12:00,315 they'll take you. 762 01:12:00,816 --> 01:12:01,874 Yes, I'll go. 763 01:12:07,656 --> 01:12:10,250 But he understands, right? This is the only choice. 764 01:12:10,392 --> 01:12:12,917 If he doesn't take this offer then that's it, he stays at home. 765 01:12:12,995 --> 01:12:15,463 There's nothing more I can do. Or want to do. 766 01:12:20,302 --> 01:12:24,671 Maneck has also, I think, been accepted into the same school as Avijit. 767 01:12:25,207 --> 01:12:29,007 Oh, I'll be happy to get rid of that brat. 768 01:12:29,511 --> 01:12:33,106 I told him to go to his class and he ran away. 769 01:12:33,482 --> 01:12:37,350 I told him to earn me 200 rupees per month so I can feed him. 770 01:12:37,619 --> 01:12:41,090 So he gave me 2 rupees... 771 01:12:41,090 --> 01:12:43,888 and ran away to play marbles. 772 01:12:44,126 --> 01:12:48,426 Shanti's all right, but this one is a weasel because he's younger. 773 01:12:56,038 --> 01:12:59,496 I'm not worried about sending her off... 774 01:12:59,908 --> 01:13:02,172 in fact I feel happy, I feel good. 775 01:13:02,244 --> 01:13:04,109 If only it wasn't today. 776 01:13:04,179 --> 01:13:07,114 My mother died on a thursday at five in the afternoon... 777 01:13:07,383 --> 01:13:10,648 since then, I don't do anything special on thursdays. 778 01:13:13,021 --> 01:13:14,955 Ma, can I go? 779 01:13:15,457 --> 01:13:17,448 You can go tomorrow, but not today. 780 01:13:17,726 --> 01:13:21,856 Everyone is going today. It's the last chance. There's no other opportunity. 781 01:13:21,930 --> 01:13:24,455 I can't let her go on a thursday. 782 01:13:24,700 --> 01:13:30,070 The last time I did something on a thursday I suffered greatly... 783 01:13:30,305 --> 01:13:33,365 I'm still carrying on that suffering. 784 01:13:34,076 --> 01:13:34,974 I'm leaving. 785 01:13:35,077 --> 01:13:38,569 You didn't touch your mother's feet. 786 01:13:39,581 --> 01:13:41,947 You didn't touch your mother's feet. 787 01:13:51,493 --> 01:13:53,017 Now you can go? 788 01:13:54,296 --> 01:13:57,322 It's good for her. Her future. 789 01:13:57,399 --> 01:14:01,028 - I know, she will grow up well. - You can see her. Every month. 790 01:14:01,303 --> 01:14:02,270 One time. 791 01:14:17,619 --> 01:14:21,316 I only cried a little but my mother was so sad. 792 01:14:22,257 --> 01:14:24,316 But you will get used to it. 793 01:14:24,993 --> 01:14:27,018 Wow, you've got a whole lot of things. 794 01:14:34,269 --> 01:14:35,429 Shanti. 795 01:14:37,873 --> 01:14:38,840 Shanti. 796 01:14:39,875 --> 01:14:43,174 Look, there's no need to be sad. I'm not crying. 797 01:14:46,515 --> 01:14:48,107 Bye, Manik. 798 01:14:52,955 --> 01:14:55,253 Don't cry. Everything is gonna be alright. 799 01:14:58,193 --> 01:15:01,128 Gour's going to miss me a lot, that's for sure! 800 01:15:01,230 --> 01:15:03,095 They're not coming back anymore 801 01:15:03,365 --> 01:15:05,094 they're not coming back 802 01:15:05,267 --> 01:15:08,964 they're gone forever 803 01:15:13,342 --> 01:15:15,936 now I'm going to go live with ross 804 01:15:16,678 --> 01:15:20,079 there's Sabera. "Sabera" is written right there! 805 01:15:37,566 --> 01:15:41,195 There is no way that I'm going to get Avijit's passport... 806 01:15:41,436 --> 01:15:44,428 without someone higher up intervening. 807 01:15:45,073 --> 01:15:47,974 I don't think this kid is going to get a passport. 808 01:15:49,945 --> 01:15:52,106 School thing. His birth certificate. 809 01:15:52,347 --> 01:15:54,076 A letter from student counselor. 810 01:15:54,516 --> 01:15:56,418 A copy of the ration card. 811 01:15:56,418 --> 01:15:57,976 Corrections for the ration card. 812 01:15:58,186 --> 01:16:01,485 Letter from bob. Letter from world press photo. 813 01:16:02,024 --> 01:16:04,083 And an invitation letter for Avijit. 814 01:16:05,427 --> 01:16:08,294 So, if that doesn't do it, then nothing will. 815 01:16:35,123 --> 01:16:37,819 - Avijit, where are you going? - Amsterdam. 816 01:16:38,927 --> 01:16:40,417 - When? - Tomorrow. 817 01:16:41,396 --> 01:16:43,193 - Are you excited? - Yes. 818 01:16:55,177 --> 01:16:57,873 I'll see you soon. 819 01:17:00,415 --> 01:17:01,677 We'll see you later. Bye bye. 820 01:17:01,850 --> 01:17:04,182 Please, drive slowly. If there's an accident, I won't get there. 821 01:17:04,252 --> 01:17:06,846 I won't fulfill my dreams. 822 01:17:17,966 --> 01:17:20,059 Priya auntie, does the window open? 823 01:17:20,302 --> 01:17:22,930 - Can I open the window? - No. 824 01:17:25,674 --> 01:17:28,074 Now I feel like taking pictures. 825 01:17:53,969 --> 01:17:56,062 This is a good picture. 826 01:17:57,105 --> 01:18:00,438 We get a good sense of how these people live. 827 01:18:01,977 --> 01:18:04,502 And though there is sadness in it... 828 01:18:05,714 --> 01:18:10,481 and though it's hard to face, we must look at it because it is truth. 829 01:18:18,193 --> 01:18:19,387 Hold them together. 830 01:18:53,161 --> 01:18:56,221 Avijit returned to Calcutta... 831 01:18:56,364 --> 01:19:00,664 and chose to enter the future hope school. 832 01:19:06,975 --> 01:19:12,936 Manik's father would not let him go to school. 833 01:19:16,885 --> 01:19:21,618 Puja's mother withdrew her from the Sabera school. 834 01:19:24,392 --> 01:19:30,558 Shanti left the Sabera school of her own accord. 835 01:19:33,034 --> 01:19:36,171 Gour still lives at home... 836 01:19:36,171 --> 01:19:40,005 and hopes to go to university. 837 01:19:43,011 --> 01:19:45,680 Tapasi ran away from home... 838 01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:49,480 and went to the Sanlaap school for girls. 839 01:19:51,653 --> 01:19:54,322 Suchitra's aunt refused... 840 01:19:54,322 --> 01:19:58,281 to let her leave the brothel. 841 01:20:00,562 --> 01:20:04,225 Kochi chose to stay at Sabera. 842 01:20:04,299 --> 01:20:09,669 She is happy and doing well.