Caste on the Menu Card is a 21-minute documentary film made by students of the School of Media and Cultural Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), focuses on beef-eating practices in Mumbai, India.
It portrays the prevalence of caste differentiation in food choices of people in Mumbai, how it causes exclusion, and touches upon concerns related to livelihood, social inclusion and human rights.
[1] In 2015, the film was the only one of 35 whose planned showing at the 12th Jeevika Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival was cancelled.
That permission was subsequently revoked at short notice, with the warden saying that BAPSA had wanted to move the screening to an outside area over which he had no jurisdiction.
[4] The directors were Anurup Khillare, Atul Anand, Vaseem Chaudhary, Reetika Revathy Subramanian and Ananyaa Gaur.