Dutch filmmaker Andreas Van De Laar likes to call himself a "jugaadu". It's how the 30-year-old Amsterdammer has been getting by in India, since his arrival here in 2017, to work on his documentary, One Point Seven. With just an iPhone, steadicam, and sponsored laptop in tow, Van De Laar is making a five-part series, which captures India's innovation story in the field of urban development, governance, healthcare, education and agriculture, and among other things, explores solutions for the country to grow sustainably.

"We shouldn't waste people's time, particularly children's time, and I think we are doing that a lot today... we are wasting their time. That bit needs to be changed quickly, if we want to get better productivity in society," Dr Sugata Mitra, who conceived the Hole-in-the-Wall Education Project — a path-breaking learning methodology — is heard saying in the opening lines of Van De Laar's chapter on education, The Learning Curve. Mishra's sound byte is immediately juxtaposed with Van De Laar's voice over, which we are told was recorded under the sheet of his bed, to cut any external sounds and frequencies, due to the sheer lack of a studio set-up. "All jugaad," says the filmmaker, when we meet him at a restaurant in Bandra, on a weekday morning. "Initially, I wanted to make a film with a certain budget and crew. But, I soon realised that as I was making a film about how
to do smart things with as little as possible, the way I make it, should also reflect that."