Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India
1998, Hindi. Directed by Damaris Lüthi & Ulrich Grossenbacher.
The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, once a fishtrader and now a healer and magician; and Muthiah, a videographer of upper class weddings — living in a neighbourhood in Nagercoil, a south Indian town. The aim of the video is to show the persons not as representatives of homogeneous masses, but to acknowledge them as individuals who nurse their own specific worries and strategies in a changing world. The protagonists thus themselves comment about their own lives and actions.
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Hindi
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- Released
- 20 January 1998
- Original title
- Seide, Muthappar und VHS
- Country
- Switzerland
- Written by
- Damaris Lüthi
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Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 20 January 1998. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India?
Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India (1998) was directed by Damaris Lüthi and Ulrich Grossenbacher.