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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play  In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the UK The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy two Super-8 cameras two projectors and two reel to reel recorders One set of equipment he sends to his family in India the other he keeps for himself For 40 years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home - images of snow miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged the first trip to an English supermarket - his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts Back in India his relatives in turn respond with their own &39;cine-letters&39; telling tales of weddings festivals and village life As time passes and the planned return to India becomes an increasingly remote possibility the joy and curiosity of the early exchanges give way to the darker reality of alienation racism and a family falling apart A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation discovery racism and belonging I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera

A unique chronicle of the lives of a family of Indian immigrants in the 1960s, as told through the images captured on their movie camera. Arriving in Britain in 1965, Yash Pal Suri buys two sets of Super-8 cameras and projectors. One set he sends to relatives in India, the other he uses to record the new life he and his family experience in a rapidly changing Britain. Over the next 40 years, he shares his experiences with those back home, chronicling the changing times and fashions, and providing a unique perspective on the eccentricities of the British. His relatives in turn, provide their own history of their changing lives back in India, yet as the years pass, the initial excitement of the exchanges passes, to be replaced with a growing sense of alienation.