The World is Family is filmmaker Anand Patwardhan’s first personal movie—snippets of videos he took of his parents Wasudev ‘Balu’ Patwardhan and ceramist Nirmala ‘Ni/Nima’ Patwardhan. Through it, he connects the personal to the political: His granduncles—Rau and Achyut Patwardhan—were among the countless nationalists fighting for India’s freedom; a dream that is now distorted into a communal dystopia. But the soft core of the 90-minute documentary that will be showcased at JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival this evening is the family that is Patwardhan’s world—the affectionate bond between his parents. And the star within—at least for us—his caustic, no-nonsense mother who smokes continuously through the film. And when she’s in the hospital for a tumour, she says, “I have no complaints; I brought this upon myself.”