Category Archives: Documentaries

“Nuclear Tango-why a hero fell from grace” is an hour long documentary that investigates and puts together why Dr. A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani nuclear weapons program was made to take the rap and accept responsibility for having orchestrated the Pakistan –North Korea nuclear relationship.

The film establishes the critical role that Pakistan has played in nursing North Korea to establish itself as a potent nuclear power with a delivery capability. This assistance was guided by the Chinese Government, through the identified efforts of General Xiong Guangkai, Deputy Chief of the Peoples Liberation Army, who in CIA parlance, was the case officer for this exchange between the Pakistani’s and the North Koreans.

The Chinese helped Pakistan put together the machinery to manufacture nuclear weapons through the uranium enrichment route and directed Pakistan to divulge this to North Korea. As a quid pro quo, the Chinese assisted the North Koreans in developing ballistic missiles and instructed them to route this to Pakistan. In this manner, the Chinese avoided getting sanctioned by the Clinton Administration, yet succeeded in their strategic goals of maintaining the “nuclear heat” on Japan, India and South Korea.

Furthermore, the spin-off of this mother of all conspiracies was the diffusion, to Al-Qaida and Libya and Iran of this dual use technology and the wherewithal to deploy it productively, both as weapons of terror and mass destruction by the Pakistani ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) controlled politico-military establishment in Pakistan.

Because the Libyans blew the whistle on the Pakistanis and revealed that the Libyan nuclear program was developed exclusively with Pakistani help, the issue of this proliferating and clandestine nuclear trade became public. The rest is history. Though Dr. Khan was censured for the eyes of the world, the truth is that as a loyal citizen of Pakistan, he willingly became the fall guy.

Series Title: Nuclear Tango – Why a hero fell from grace
Channel – Israel Broadcasting Authority
Format – HD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Duration – 1 x 50 minutes
Language: English

The famous Afghan leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud was born in Jangalak in the Panjshir in 1953. He was assassinated by two Tunisian assassins on September 9th 2001, ostensibly as part of the 9/11 process to draw the US into the Afghan war. This film looks at Massoud’s life through the eyes of his colleagues and friends and examines what made him the great leader that he was.

Series Title: Massoud: Destiny’s Afghan
Channel: Tolo TV (Afghanistan), IRIB (Iran), Red Media Group (Russia), The History Channel Iberia B.V., Spain
Format: HD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Duration: 1 X 50 Minutes
Language: English

The Legend of Malerkotla – A Tale about the Punjab – This is a film on how Hindu Muslim  unity and the original composite culture of the Punjab was maintained in the town of  Malerkotla, Punjab during the partition of India, while the entire surrounding countryside  was being ethnically cleansed.

Series Title: The Legend of Malerkotla
Channel: Discovery Channel International, Red Media Group (Russia)
Format: Digi Beta
Duration: 1 X 50 Minutes
Language: English

“The Road to Nirvana- A Journey in Tibet” is a first person account of a Tibetan travelogue through the eyes of Producer/ Director Iqbal Malhotra. He, alongwith his wife and nine other Indians, in September 2002, drove and trekked 1200 kms between Lhasa and Mt. Kailash, across the South Western Tibetan plateau. Through this journey, Iqbal Malhotra takes us through the spiritual, cultural and political history of Tibet and its century’s old interaction with India, which exported Buddhism to it.

The camera follows the travelers and their impressions and experiences as they drive through the Tibetan heartland over makeshift roads and what is perhaps the toughest yet most amazing countryside on the roof of the world. For the travelers, the journey is the destination. This is all the more true when they circumambulate Mt. Kailash traveling 52 kms on foot and not being able to see the mountain because of the snow and the mist. Yet its presence is omnipotent, magnetic and mesmeric.

The film is 49 minutes long and is shot by hand held camera. There is an original musical score and viewing the film is an experience in itself.

Series Title: The Road to Nirvana
Channel – Discovery Channel International
Duration: 1 X 55 Minutes
Language: English