Filmography

• Alien Homeland (1982) 
• Cholanaiken of Kerala (1983/84) 
• Hynniew Trep (1986/87)
• Whose Forests? (1988)
• Wangala - A Garo Festival (1989/1991)
• Ladakh - Life along the Indus (1993) 
• Literacy using Folk Forms (1996)
• Mirror for Man, Myth and Ecology (1996/97) 
• Sacred World of the Toda (1995/96)
• Banam (1998/99)
  
• Chasing the Monsoon (2000/01)
• Pashmina Royale (2000/01)
  
• Kumbh Mela (2001)
  
• Heritage of Nalanda and its Continuity (2000)
  
• The Morung - Silent witness of the Brave Wancho (2003) 
• Virgin Iron (2003/04) 
• Cold Water Fisheries (2004)
• Impact of NREGA in Sundargarh District Orissa (2005) 
• Whispering Voices and No More Migration (2005) 
• Winds of Change (2005)
• A Journey down the Brahmaputra (2006) 
• The Mun - High Priestesses of the Lepchas (2006/07) 
• The Journey of Bhikkunis (2006) 
• Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing (2006)
  
• A Dialogue with Women Priestess of Lepchas (2006/07)
  
• Ramayana in the North East (2006/07)
  
• SAARC - Many Nations, One Voice (2008) 
• Sowa Rigpa - Ancient Wisdom Timeless Healing (2009)
• Colours of Faith (2011)
• Journey of Ayurveda (2011)
• Buddhist Chantings of Ladakh (2012)
  
• Mighty Brahmaputra (2017/18)
  
• Looking for Chalan (2019/20)

Awards

• Wangala - A Garo Festival won the Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film at the 40th National Awards in 1993. As producer and director, he won two Silver Lotuses (Rajat Kamals) for "presenting the life of lifestyle of Garo community of Meghalaya".
• His Ladakh - Life Along the Indus won the Best Anthropological/ Ethnographic Film at the 41st National Award in 1994. As producer and director, Bappa won two Silver Lotuses (Rajat Kamals) "for a visually enchanting depiction of the life patterns of the people living along the river Indus in Ladakh, with rich details emerging from their environment".
• His The Morung - Silent Witness Of The Brave Wancho won the Best Anthropological/ Ethnographic Film at the 42nd National Award in 1995. Bappa won a Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal) for "detailed and painstaking yet engaging documentation of The Wancho Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh".
• Pashmina Royale won the Best Promotional Film at the 48th National Awards in 2001. As a producer and director, he won two Silver Lotuses (Rajat Kamals) for "creatively tracing the history of Pashmina shawl and aesthetically portraying the designs and styles of this ancient Kashmiri art, which has now been revived".

Did You Know?

As a result of Buddhist Chantings of Ladakh and dossier, Buddhist chantings were later selected by UNESCO in 2012 for preservation as Intangible Heritage.

Research by: Geety Sahgal

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