ARADHANA SETH completed her Masters from the Mass Communications Research Centre at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. Upon graduation in 1987, Seth commenced her career in film as an Assistant Director on the feature, In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones, whose screenplay was written by Arundhati Roy. It was in 1992, while working on George Lucas' Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, shot in Benares, India, that she met director, Deepa Mehta. She went on to become the production designer for Mehta's films Fire and Earth. She also designed Somnath Sen's film, Leela. Her latest film Dam/Age, is a chronicle of the fight against the Narmada Dam and the related court case against Arundhati Roy. The film winds a range of related issues - India's nuclear standoff with Pakistan, the corruption of the World Bank and the Indian people's uprising against their displacement by the government's failed dam projects, to name a few around the buildup of tension in the days before Roy's sentencing.
