This film stayed with me for years before it became a film.

It began with a deep fascination for Rajasthan Ki Rajat Boondein by Anupam Mishra and a personal urge to understand the wisdom held in those pages. What started as curiosity slowly turned into a long journey across Rajasthan, with a camera, many questions, and very limited means.

The challenge was never only about making a film. It was about doing justice to a body of knowledge that is profound, humble, and civilisational in scale.

Over time, what moved me most was not only the water structures themselves, but the fading memory around them. In many places the ponds, beris, kunds and khadeens still exist, but the lived understanding of how they worked is slipping away.

That stayed with me.

Somewhere along the way, the film stopped being just documentation. It became, for me, an act of remembering.

A tribute to a way of thinking. A quiet reminder that resilience is often inherited before it is engineered.

India has carried a deep intelligence around water. Much of it still survives, even if faintly. This film is my small attempt to listen to that memory.

If you would like to read the book, please find the link:

https://www.indiawaterportal.org/agriculture/farm/rajasthan-ki-rajat-boondein-book-anupam-mishra