Anand Patwardhan's passionate, detailed chronicling of injustices in India has made him the filmmaking conscience of his nation. In The Name of God, Jai Bhim Comrade, and Father, Son, and Holy War stand not only as first-rate documentaries, but as direct interventions on behalf of justice and compassion. After years of work, Patwardhan is back with perhaps his most urgent and thorough film yet.
Divided into eight chapters, Reason sets out to chart what Patwardhan sees as India's slide away from the complex tumult of a secular democracy towards hardening divisions of power, caste, and religious belief — lines that are enforced increasingly by violence.

导演为垂垂老矣的双亲塑像，以最私密的家族回忆，交织出印度一世纪跌宕的历史沧桑。这位印度当代最重要的政治纪录片作者，透过父母与亲友口述、旧照片及珍贵档案，回溯家族成员与甘地、尼赫鲁及安贝卡等政治及精神领袖的密切关系，两位叔父更代表革命派及非暴力派不同政见，在对抗英殖统治、争取印度独立及反对印巴分治政策上举足轻重。对照当下印度教与伊斯兰教互相倾轧，回顾先贤对种族宗教融和的伟大理念，又有何启示？