Since 2019, I have ventured into production of visual media. These include documentaries, experimental documentary shorts and creative engagements with community spaces documented in the visual medium. Since 2026, I have also ventured into curation.
Calcutta Migrant City
Between 2019 and 2022 I conceived and curated a 3 part documentary series with the Calcutta Research Group. Titled "Calcutta Migrant City", this series explored the city of Calcutta as it was formed by different kinds of migration and continues to shape and create new migrations of its own.
These films are screened across the world in classrooms and conferences in courses and discussion related to migration and urban studies.
Watch the films here:
Tamarind Tunes
With Tamarind Tunes, I have been producing a series of songs and discussions related to the urban ecology, relation of memory with our non-human kins, popular movements and public protests. The songs can be viewed here:
Read more about the Tamarind Tunes project here: The Federal
Friends of Jilipibala (2026)
Friends of Jilipibala (Bengali: Jilipibalar Bondhura) is a 2025 Indian experimental documentary short film directed, and shot by Debalina Majumder, and co-produced by Samata Biswas. The film captures the relationship between a toddler and the urban ecosystem of a historic 70-year-old tamarind tree in Kolkata. It premiered at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival, where it received a Special Jury Mention in the Indian Documentary Competition.
Trailer link: Friends of Jilipibala trailer
The film is intrinsically linked to a real-world environmental movement in Kolkata. The tamarind tree at the centre of the film was planted approximately 70 years ago by the revolutionary freedom fighter Parul Mukherjee after she settled in the refugee colony following Partition.
In 2024, when builders threatened to fell the tree for a new development project, Majumder and the local community launched the "Tentultolaar Gaan" (Songs of the Tamarind Tree) movement. This collective activism--which included live concerts under the tree, signature campaigns, and the film itself--successfully pressured the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to restructure property boundaries, ensuring the tree remained on public land and was granted protected status.
Read more about Friends of Jilipibala here: Independent Ink
Find us on Facebook: Tamarind Tunes, Instagram: Tamarind Tunes and Youtube: Tentultolar Gaan
The Medicalising Everyday Life Project
This is an Instagram handle consisting of my archive of images shot during my family's navigation of medical infrastructure. During my father's prolonged illness, we learnt to appreciate and value human beings and objects that stood between pain and relief. With his passing, I hope to curate this collection into an enduring testimony of patient suffering, aided, and at times, hindered, by medical logistics.
Instagram: medicalisingeverydaylife
Curation
Moving to the City
In 2026, I curated my first three-day exploration of the transformative power of women's migration to Kolkata. By juxtaposing a contemporary cinematic reimagining of queer resistance with the historical reality of women's labor, it aimed to trace how "moving to the city" has been both a desperate fight for survival and a radical act of economic, social and spatial restructuring. With echoes of voices from historical and contemporary autobiographies and memoirs, and a theatrical performance in which two young women, gender emerges as that which both shapes and is shaped by the city.
Read more about it here: Goethe-Institut Kolkata event