Written on the body | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written on the body | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Anushree Majumdar |Updated: May 9, 2019 12:00:42 am

Written on the body

In her debut film, Sapna Moti Bhavnani traces one of the largest migration of people in the history of the world, through her family, and on her skin.

“I was born a Sindhi but I had no idea about the history of my people. I didn’t know that both Hindus and Muslims can be Sindhis. They had co-existed for centuries, they spoke the same language. The more I began to search for information, I realised that while there was a lot of material available about the history of Punjab, there was so much silence on Sindh,” says Sapna Moti Bhavnani.

The flowers in Bandra’s Pali Hill are in full bloom — paper-thin bougainvillea in fuchsia and white, chartreuse columns of laburnum leaning over buildings, playing peek-a-boo in this concrete jungle. Joining them is Sapna Moti Bhavnani — hair stylist, writer, actor, reality TV star, the enfant terrible of Indian showbiz — and now filmmaker, sports a fiery strawberry mop of hair when we meet at the Pali Village Café to talk about her debut film, a documentary called Sindhustan.