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‘They are criminalised for being poor’
Updated On: 15 May, 2022 09:01 AM IST | Mumbai | Nidhi Lodaya
Filmmaker Kireet Khurana’s bilingual documentary explores homelessness in India
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According to an estimate, India has 70 million homeless people, which is equal to almost the entire population of France
Every layer of safety created in the system to protect children, is part of abusing children,” speaks Tarique Mohammed, setting the premise for the documentary that draws the curtain from the dreadful and horrifying conditions of the homeless in the country. It was through Mohammed that filmmaker Kireet Khurana focused his lens on the disenfranchised in his documentary, The Invisible Visible, which is a mix of spoken Hindi and English. Mohammed is the founder of Koshish, an NGO affiliated with The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Deonar.
The documentary starts with a hard look at the notorious Muzaffarpur shelter home where 34 girls between the ages of six and 15 were tortured, raped and killed, as per news reports. “I was very insensitive towards them [the homeless],” says Khurana, who has worked on over 550 advertisement films for brands like Kelloggs, Pepsico, Unilever and Coke, “until I started this [documentary].” He met Mohammed at the Aspire Circle Fellowship programme in 2015 and learned that India has an estimated 70 million homeless people, almost the population of France.
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