Saksham Trust and with very valuable support from SAPIENT, The Directorate of Film Festivals, is organizing the screening of popular Bollywood film ‘Sholay’ with audio-description, subtitles, and supported by sign-language interpretation.
The audio description feature, when combined with subtitles, enhances the abilities of a person with visual and/or hearing impairment to experience and connect with the film the same way as a sighted person. The audio description refers to the narrative track added to a film that enables a person with visual impairment to understand the sequences that have a natural pause/no sound.
This year also marks the completion of 43 years of the film, a milestone worth celebrating by making the cinema a watching experience for all. Saksham Trust has in the past voluntarily audio-described 28 Bollywood films that have been shown at various film festivals and private screenings.
Saksham works in the field of education, assistive technology solutions for reading and writing and mobility solutions, inclusive entertainment, covering Pan India, with a school for children with vision impairment in Noida, since 2003.
