Even as the Capital counts down to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, filmmaker Yasmin Kidwai wants us to look further. “At the little-known Commonwealth Youth Games that are held as a run-up to the main event. In India , the youth games were held in Pune last year and I was there with my camera,” she says. The film, titled Get Set Go, was screened at the Alliance Francaise on Saturday.

The film was largely unplanned. “I was in Pune to promote Chukker, my film on polo, when I found out about the Youth Games. Seventy-one countries were participating, and what’s better is that India led the medals tally,” says Kidwai.

Young athletes such as Saina Nehlwal went on to conquer more titles in the international arena and Kidwai feels that her film captures the spirit of the youth games. “I’m not really into sports. Chukker happened just by chance and a sense of curiosity, the same happened with Get, Set, Go and now I am planning my next film on the actual games, with a behind-the-scenes approach,” says Kidwai.

Her other work Seher hit the small screen across India on DD Urdu this month. “These are profiles of ordinary Muslim women who are achievers in their respective fields. For instance, Alisha Abdullah from Chennai is India’s only female bike racer. In spite of women such as Abdullah, Muslim girls were typecast as uneducated, burkha-clad and oppressed,” says Kidwai who began shooting for Seher with her brother Fazal last year.

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