
An Insignificant Man
In 2011, anti-corruption protests led by Anna Hazare draw hundreds of thousands into the streets of Delhi, and out of that movement a new political party forms almost overnight. The film follows Arvind Kejriwal, a former tax bureaucrat turned activist, as he builds the Aam Aadmi Party from scratch and runs it against India's entrenched Congress and BJP machines in the 2013 Delhi state election. Cameras get access most political documentaries never win: war rooms, strategy sessions, door-to-door canvassing, and the candidate's own doubts as volunteers argue over slogans and rivals dismiss the party as naive amateurs. Kejriwal's combative debate performances and the party's improvised, crowdfunded campaign sit at the center of the story, building toward election night and the arithmetic of seats that decides whether the experiment survives. The film treats Indian democracy as a system worth watching up close, messy meetings and all, rather than reducing the campaign to a simple underdog story.