08/03/2025
Sikkidre Shikari, Ildidre Bhikari (Bird trapper or Beggar) is screening at the Nomad Film Festival at Arthshila Delhi.
The film is a journey that perhaps began decades ago and has been many years in the making. The Hakki Pikkis are a free spirited nomadic tribe who began their wandering many generations ago in the North Western part of the Indian subcontinent.
Over time they traveled through and settled in different states of the country. As they moved, they survived through trapping birds and hunting small game in the forests and selling them in cities and towns along with lucky charms and trinkets. If the trap failed, begging was the next best bet!
Exiled from the forest, reviled by the city, their traditional ways of life outlawed, the Hakki Pikkis share their stories of wit and survival in the film that emerged through a series of community conversations held when we travelled with friends from a settlement in Bannerghatta, Bangalore to other settlements across Karnataka
Join us on 16 March 2025 at 4.30pm for the screening. Madhu Bhushan and Kumuda Sushil from the team will join us for the post screening Q&A.
