Katiyabaaz

The documentary was filmed in the Indian city of Kanpur. Power cuts there last for days at a time. One man makes his living running illegal connections. He gives electricity to poor neighbourhoods. Among people there he counts as something close to a hero. On the other side is a woman running the electricity company. She is the first woman to head it. She has vowed to cut off every illegal connection for good. The two of them come up against each other over one summer. The summer heat makes the crisis worse. The film does not pick a side. It shows where each of them is right. What it is really about is energy poverty. The eighty minute documentary is the work of Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, an Indian production finished in 2013.