About Founder
Saurabh Kumar is the Founder of Opia Films and Co-Founder of Bolti Media Foundation. He is a multimedia journalist, content creator, and documentary filmmaker with over seven years of experience based in Mumbai, India. He also co-founded Public Bolti, a citizen journalism and advocacy platform that helped raise funds for migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, mobilised food for them in passenger trains, rescued bonded labourers from brick kilns and ensured accountability from public health authorities in specific locations. He was also part of the Repeal Sedition initiative, a blog about the colonial-era sedition law in India.
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Multimedia News
Unveiling a Deep Dive: Article 14
This a meticulously crafted four-part series that delves into the poignant issue of bonded labor and trafficking in India for Article 14 News Portal. It has been a profound journey over nine months, and we are excited to share it with individuals who deeply care about shedding light on such critical matters.
RUPTLY Video News Agency
Stories for RUPTLY.TV by Saurabh Kumar 31 dead in Mumbai landslides caused by heavy rainfall Emergency response services attended landslide incident sites in Mumbai on Sunday, following a night of heavy rainfall during which retaining walls collapsed.The landslides took place in Mumbai’s suburbs of Chembur and Vikhroli, with a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) spokesperson …
China Central Television, Mumbai Bureau
Stories for CCTV by Gao Zhan and Saurabh Kumar Cyclone Tauktae left so many people homeless and injured behind during the pandemic Housing is a basic human right, it’s a basic necessity and it cannot be treated as a commodity. Cyclone Tauktae left so many people homeless and injured behind during the pandemic. The resident …
CNA Undercover Asia S4:Ep 4: Unholy Hands
CNA Undercover Asia S4:Ep 4: Unholy Hands 11 May 2017 12:00AM India is facing a massive crisis in its healthcare sector. There is approximately 1 registered doctor for every 1700 patients. This severe shortage of qualified doctors, an ineffective public healthcare system, lack of legal enforcement and corruption has lead to the rampant growth of …
CNA Get Real S16: Ep 3: India’s Healthcare Crisis
CNA Get Real S16:Ep 3: India’s Healthcare Crisis News / By Opia Films / June 18, 2023 In August 2017, a hospital in North India ran out of oxygen and 63 children suffocated to death. The tragedy exposed India’s healthcare crisis. Get Real discovers why children are paying the price of India’s poor healthcare services.
Burned out, numb, helpless: India doctors bear grim witness to unfolding Covid-19 tragedy
Burned out, numb, helpless – India doctors bear grim witness to unfolding Covid-19 tragedyPhoto published in The Straits Times
Academic Documentaries
Dar-B-Dar, The Itinerants Trailer
This documentary film explores the stories of the street hawkers in a market at Lallubhai Compound, Mumbai. The challenges that are faced in dealing with everyday realities by the hawkers, is the central theme around which the film revolves. In doing so, the film also introduces the space of the market as the central character of the film, which grew out of the rehabilitated population from the slums of the city. A film by: Akash Basumatari, Arpita Katiyar, Radhika Agarwal, Rajendra Jadhav, Saurabh Kumar, Sujata Sarkar
Where the blue lotus blooms...trailer
A Home is not merely a physical space; it is a space of belonging- a space of acceptance and dignity. Where the blue lotus blooms is a film made at home with four Transgenders- Joanna, Pradipta, Sree and Urmi, who are from various social and physical spaces in Mumbai. Cutting through the identity of being a transgender in a world dominated by the cisgenders ( the so called ‘normal’ people) along with the social prejudices that come with it, they speak to each other about how they negotiate the space they call home. A film by Anand Gautam, Geetha K Wilson, Radhika Agarwal, Saurabh Kumar & Shreya Katyayini