 I'm a filmmaker basically and I mean she used to be more of a political thing and she came into the field I feel she's always been an English journalist and she was working for Times of India, Sunday magazine, telegraph and all that so I mean it was more of a humanitarian journalism and she was there when she was in that and then my father passed away in 2000 she came in and said okay we'll handle the Canada newspaper and she was not that good in it I mean of course she would read and write and talk her right language was very important and my father was a huge guy whose language was very much appreciated and his literature value was very much appreciated so she was very apprehensive in taking it up you know but then she said okay I'll give it a shot and in the beginning we remember when she would write in English and people would translate that for you know to the paper and gradually within two years she could read such a point where she could correct her colleagues and even the proofreader and all that she would correct the spellings of that and that much interest she took and all that but during the course of the time around 2004 or 2005 or four or five years into the line she got into a lot of activism and activism journalism so that part which we were not very aware of though we knew what she was going she was going to Baba Buddha in Giri to solve that problem you know to go to tribals like recently very much recently she went towards the diddly you know where the diddly tribals were being dislocated so all these kind of fights she's been having you know with against a lot of especially anti-establishment kind of thing and in between the naxalites for instance I mean the people are so the social media and the people now they just read the headline and make up whatever you know they don't read go into the induct of the story so actually she was accused of being a naxalite herself or urban naxalite she was so untrue what she did was actually she was not only her to the forum we're including a hundred year old freedom fighters there Divanur Mahadev was a fantastic writer and a very well respected writer of Canada is there so all these people made a forum and they were in talks with the naxalites to leave their arms and come into the mainstream society which is not naxalism but people including after she passed away if you see the trolls and things like that she was a naxalite so I mean it's so they don't go into any in-depth when she was fighting for the minority when she was fighting for the Christians the Muslims the Dalits so everything she was pro the you know she was the one who put it in one word she was the voice for the voiceless so that is what she stood for I think and though she's been silenced now what I feel is after she passed away so many people are like translating on their own and putting it into the social media now Diana publishers have come from Kerala to saying that now Telugu they are releasing it in Telugu the book of which was done by Chandan Goda a good friend of hers and a journalist as well columnist as well so people are it's being translated to so many languages I think many many Gauris will be born because of this more than just silencing her the opposite as I in fact happen it should happen I think if it does not happen that people will stand up for the rights they're not going to say okay it's one language one India is known for its beauty and is because of its diversity you know everybody could coexist without harming to this level so I think I mean that's the positive thing which has happened I think the follow-up of the case has been a lot of speculation the media I mean every day is something new coming from that but I am not trusting that because it seems it becomes like a circus so I'm just listening to what the SIT team is telling us and we have high optimism in them because they have the largest number of people they have put and also the kind of work they've done most effort I believe they're putting in so I trust that they'll come out soon with and solve the case which Mr. B casing recently and they have said that there's vital clues they've got but to close in they need some more evidence so I'm hoping they'll do a good job basically I'm a filmmaker I used to be a documentary filmmaker earlier and then I gradually came into feature films and I've made about 10 feature films and recently I'm making one in English and Canada it's a bilingual and couple of national awards one international I feel very bad saying all this in this moment if you put this separately it's fine because it's more important about my sister now and I'm not the type to gloat about myself and more than that I mean filmmaking is for me a passion so it's not I'm not really looking at it as commercial value that way of course it has made its money but same now I want to say something to it in fact my last film was about a little Dalit boy and the untouchability my first film was about politics and how the you know Nandita Das had acted in it so different I mean I try to I mean as people say I don't can't really make a movie with only magic and no logic I'm very sensible that way right now I'm working on a children's film called Summer Holidays which in fact Gauri acted in it small role as an activist and yeah so there's a quality it's called Azad apparently he's Meera Naya's associate or something it's a beautiful film actually it's a short film about somebody like Gauri fighting for the minorities and he's actually in the daytime he's working in a factory kind of thing and in the night he's writing poetry and articles and his son doesn't believe in him because they're living in a very small middle class lower middle class kind of place so he says what is this writing about we used to say the same thing about Gauri for instance what are you doing you haven't made a site even the house she was living in my mother had made office I had fought for and partitioned it for me and her and my brother so she's not really bought anything for herself but then when she passed away I realized the kind of people she's gone out of the kind of response she's been getting now all over the country people are protesting about the killing so I'm proud of her that way so this movie is the same thing the son and the father don't understand each other or at least don't believe in their ideologies I believed in my sister's idea but you have to be so much fighting there but we need that there's something called self-censorship why should you have self-censorship you know there should be a decrement what you say that's fine but if you're going to say if you can't speak against the government you should censor yourself why should you do that so what is freedom of speech in that case such a democratic society so that's what this film talked about and finally the father is found dead and the son he can say then he understands what his father stood for you know so then he starts writing in his father's kind of in his father's memory it's a very close very much to what is happening it's a smaller version of Gauri's in fact one person called Deepu has made a documentary for one hour called I'm Gauri and it's all on YouTube and all that it's a fantastic one in fact he has so much more footage so he wants to make a longer version later this was just a tribute to her kind of thing