Shubhradeep Chakravorty of Godhra Tak documentary fame dies

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By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 25 August 2014: Noted documentary filmmaker Shubhradeep Chakravorty died Monday morning after brief illness. He was admitted at All India Instituted of Medical Sciences for last one week. He had received a massive brain haemorrhage and had since been in ICU at the hospital. He was born in Kolkata in 1972. Delhi-based Chakravorty, a journalist by training and documentary filmmaker by passion, had made four famous documentaries in last 10 years.

His first documentary film was Godhra Tak: The Terror Trail. The film about the barbaric incident of 27 Feb 2002, in which coach S6 of Sabarmati Express was burnt down at Godhra railway station in Gujarat, tried to find out what actually happened at the railway station on that day and how far the allegation of a conspiracy is true. The incident was used to start anti Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002.

His next work was Encountered on Saffron Agenda? The investigative film is about infamous fake encounters of Gujarat: encounters of Sameer Khan Pathan (22 October, 2002), Sadik Jamal (13 January, 2003), Ishrat Jahan-Javed Seikh (16 June, 2004) and Shorabuddin Seikh (26 November, 2005).

In 2012, Chakravorty brought out his third documentary film Out of Court Settlement. It is about beating up, intimidation and killing of several defense lawyers across the country who were appearing in terror related cases.

The same year, he made his fourth and last finished one After the Storm – a film about seven former terror accused who secured acquittal through various law courts in past few years. It highlights their ordeal and miseries and how they are fighting to survive.

Chakravorty had a post graduation in Political Science and International Relations.

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