“In India, you don’t grow up wanting to be a documentary filmmaker—you grow up wanting to be a filmmaker,” Vinay Shukla explains over a phone conversation with VICE. And An Insignificant Man, a documentary film by Shukla and Khushboo Ranka exploring the hushed topic of politics in India, is being released by VICE in the U.S. this week, and against all odds.

Politics tend to be a messy game, especially so in India. “Neither Khushboo or I came from a political background," Shukla claims. "We had no idea of how politics function before this. We both come from the kind of decent Indian family that tells you, 'Don’t go near politics—it’s not a good thing, it’s not for good people.’” But when the two started brainstorming for the film, the election was the most interesting thing happening. Ultimately, the election ushered in a new era for India and saw the end of its Congress’s 15-year hold on Indian politics, the BJP, and Narendra Modi. It also saw the birth of an entire new party: the AAP.