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In 2016 Vinay Shukla, along with Khushboo Ranka, wrote, directed and shot his first feature length documentary An Insignificant Man that tracked the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party and Arvind Kejriwal, riding on the anti-corruption wave. A no holds barred look at the formation of a political movement and the seeds of destruction within […]

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