- Welcome to POV.
- I'm Pete Schwaba, host of PBS Wisconsin's Director's Cut .
Imagine making a film about three generations
of your own family.
Now imagine they all live with you, under the same roof,
a home that's been in the family since 1902.
Such is the story of tonight's film, About Love .
Set in the Bollywood capital of Mumbai, India,
Archana Phadke's documentary is a classic story
of boy meets girl... and what happens after
as she captures the marital dynamics of her parents
and grandparents in the days leading up
to her brother Rohan's wedding.
Rohan will be the first man in the family to move out
and set up his own home in over a hundred years.
Much of the interaction in the Phadke home is common:
teasing, laughing, and conversation.
But underneath the normalcy, Phadke captures a melancholy
within her mother and grandmother
that is part of her motivation for telling this story.
This is Archana Phadke's feature film directorial debut.
Eventually she joins the cast of her own ensemble,
turning the camera on herself as she and her sister reveal
that neither of them are in any hurry to settle down
or get married
in this historically patriarchal society.
At one point, Archana's 87-year-old grandfather Madhav
laments "There was a time when husband was everything."
Tonight, top billing goes to his granddaughter,
who's done pretty well herself.
About Love starts now on PBS Wisconsin,
your home for independent film.