Safina uberoi biography

Safina Uberoi is a filmmaker whose credits include My Mother India.
Safina Uberoi studied filmmaking initially in New Delhi and later at the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
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On India, Undies and NRIs: An Interview with My Mother India‘s Safina Uberoi

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Can an Australian ever become Indian? Filmmaker Safina Uberoi explores this very question in her thought-provoking documentary film, My Mother India, about her mother, Patricia Uberoi, who left Canberra, Australia in 1966 to live with her Sikh husband in New Delhi, India. The film is not only an extraordinary documentary about living in a different culture but also, via its explorations of the civil violence that rocked New Delhi in 1984, a sensitive examination into the way a nation’s political and historical turmoil impacts upon the lives of ordinary individuals. The film weaves together first-person interviews, historic footage and present-day shots of India in an effective, poetic manner.

The intimate, poignant quality of My Mother India derives from the fact that it is also a tale of Safina’s own journey and quest for identity. Not only does it reacquaint her with the sacrifice and suffering her parents and Indian grandparents endured but ultimately it is a homage to her

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Reclaiming Mother India: Mother, Nation, and the Other in Safina Uberoi’s ‘My Mother India’

By Soumitree Gupta

The mother has occupied a symbolic place in Hindu nationalist and cultural imaginaries since colonial times. The idealized trope of the sacrificing mother in the iconic Hindi-language film Mother India (dir. Mehboob Khan, 1957), for instance, is reminiscent of the layered textualities of Mother India/Bharat Mata in Hindu nationalist iconography in colonial India. In this essay, I focus on Australian-Indian filmmaker Safina Uberoi’s personal documentary, My Mother India (2001), which critiques as well as reclaims the celebrated trope of Mother India from gendered and ethnonationalist discourses.

Safina Uberoi, the filmmaker, is the daughter of academic couple Patricia and J. P. S. Uberoi, who met and married each other in Australia despite objections from Patricia’s family. At the center of Uberoi’s documentary are the intertwined narratives of her Australian mother Patricia and her Sikh father Jit after they arrived in India as a newly married couple in 1965

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Exploring 1947 & 1984 In "My Mother India": Safina UberoiBy Manpreet Kaur Singh

There is something very special about the Punjabi diaspora spawning an inspired breed of female filmmakers like Gurinder Chadha, Meera Syal and Deepa Mehta. Staking a claim to join this pantheon of successful women behind the lens is a lady from Down Under, Safina Uberoi. As is with the other women directors mentioned, Safina's work is her passion, her creativity is blended with an-almost-brutal honesty and her films have been applauded the world over.

Safina's life story is an interesting tale of 'reverse migration'. Her father came to Australia in the 1960's, married an Australian and later moved back to India. So Safina grew up in India with an Australian mother, a story brilliantly narrated in her film "My Mother India". This film screened successfully all over the world - including Europe and the US - picking up 11 major awards along the way. Here in Australia, it screened conti