The Chennai, India-based Krishnaswamy Associates, a company with more than 40 years expertise and experience of making award winning documentary films and TV serials, has uploaded some of its work for free access. Anyone, who is interested in downloading a film can www.kaplindia.net and get access through the link.

“For the last 40 years, we have been very focused on making only quality documentary films and TV serials, which have won national and international awards,” said Dr. Mohana Krishnaswamy, company chairperson. She said after the company founder and managing director Dr. S. Krishnaswamy received the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival in 2005, and special recognition from UK in 2006 by the TMG Hot list of Asian Media, the interest in the company’s documentaries increased multifold, particularly from outside India.

A speaker who introduced Dr. S. Krishnaswamy when he spoke at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles in 1998, said this about the filmmaker: “His short films focus attention on Indian history and culture; celebrate the new conquests of science, technology, industry and medicine; scoff with satire at social and political hypocrisy; shed tears for child labor and enslaved women; arouse awareness on ecology, health, nutrition, family welfare; unravel the spiritual teachings of Indian seers, and bring together some of the greatest living religious leaders in one film and 200 dance stars of India in one TV serial.”
Lata Krishnaswamy represents the U.S. International Film And Video Festival in India.

Streamed through Rajshree Media, Mumbai, the following select documentaries can be accessed on Krishnaswamy Associates Website www.kaplindia.net from today, (while this list will keep enlarging):

INDIA 5555 – 1997 (90 Minutes – on 5 Millennia of civilizational values, 5 Centuries of political history, 5 Decades of democracy and 5 Years of a new economic policy; Screened for President Bill Clinton before his official visit to India).

"I" – 1973 (16 Minutes experimental exploration of Indian identity – Winner of the Special National Award to Commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Independence)

REALITY BEHIND RELIGION – 1992 (30 Minutes – with inspiring messages from spiritual icons including Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Swami Ranganathananda, and others with a special song rendered by M S Subbulakshmi).

WHO LOSES WHEN INDIA WINS? – 2005 (60 Minutes Docu-drama – giving concrete proposals for Electoral Reforms to clear India’s political jungle, with new rules of the game, adapted from successful international models).

CHAKRAVARTHY RAJAGOPALACHARI – 1979 (27 Minutes biographical of Mahatma Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper).

WITH APOLOGIES TO TAGORE – 1985 (5-minute Cartoon on state of the Nation).

THE MGR PHENOMENON – 1989 (27 Minutes – telecast as a memoir on the passing away of the Tamil film ‘Star turned Tsar’).

JAYA JAYA SANKARA – 1990 (30 Minutes – on the history of the Kanchi Sankara Mutt from Adi Sankara to the Birth Centenary Celebrations of Paramacharya).

CHILD-IN-LAW – 1994 (20-Minute sensitive portrayal of the ‘child labor’ problem, directed by Bharat K. Subrahmanyam).

500 FULL MOONS – 2005 (20-minute compilation of snippets from select Documentaries & TV serials of Dr.Krishnaswamy, made over 4 decades, directed by Lata Krishnaswamy).

THYAGA BHOOMI – 1989 (Two-hour Tele-film – Hindi re-make featuring Bharat Bhushan & Gita, telecast to mark the Golden Jubilee of the ban imposed by the British administration on the celebrated Tamil film by Director K Subrahmanyam in 1939, based on a novel by Kalki, propagating ideals of the freedom struggle).

To be included in the next few weeks is INDUS VALLEY TO INDIRA GANDHI – 1976, the most known title of Krishnaswamy Associates (in 2 parts of 2 hours each – on 5000 years of Indian history – distributed by Warner Bros).

Dr. S Krishnaswamy, Managing Director said that although sporadic Indian titles may have been uploaded in the past, it was the very first time that an Indian Documentary Film Company takes the initiative to upload several of their short films on the internet for free access. The idea to do this came primarily because of the various enquiries they received on a daily basis about the documentaries made by them over the years. In a way it was recognition for India and Indian documentary industry. Krishnaswamy Associates has till now produced over 400 documentaries and is India’s oldest and most known Non-Governmental producer of documentaries.

Krishnaswamy Associates believes in Shoemeher’s philosophy of “Small is Beautiful” and remains a deliberately medium sized enterprise with high intellectual and creative turnover.