Sep 27, 2024 01:23 PM IST David Bradbury, an award-winning Australian documentary filmmaker, was detained and deported from India earlier this month for reasons undisclosed. Australian documentary filmmaker David Bradbury was detained at the Chennai airport along with his children earlier this month. The acclaimed director, who has been nominated for an Oscar in the past, was reportedly stopped upon arrival in Chennai and then detained for a day before being deported back to Australia. (Also read: Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was detained, put in handcuffs after being mistaken for a bank robber) David Bradbury with his children David Bradbury’s detention and deportation The 73-year-old award-winning filmmaker had arrived in India on September 10 with his two children – Nakeita (21) and Omar (14). The filmmaker said in an interview with The Wire that he wanted to show his kids how “Hindus deal with death” and take them to Varanasi. The filmmaker’s wife Treena, herself a documentary filmmaker, succumbed to cancer five months ago. However, Bradbury said that upon arrival, he was detained at …