Regular readers of The New Yorker will know Ved Mehta as the author of intimate biographical and autobiographical sketches based on his life as an Indian-born, naturalized American citizen, a self-made writer and lover of art who has been blind since the age of four. Mehta returned to India with director William Cran and cinematographer Ivan Strasburg to create a visual portrait--as detailed and compelling as anything he has written--of his eccentric relation, Chachaji, who is poor in relation to the upper-middle-class Mehta family. This distinction is not lost on Chachaji, at age 83 a stoic with a Keaton-like visage, a daily "program" through which he has risen above a lifetime of ignominies small and large, and a philosophy to meet any order ("A government is as good as its milk"...). Like any poor relation, Chachaji has become the exemplar of the class system as it functions within the family.