[Reader-list] Film Screening today at NGMA

[PUKAR]

Dear Friends,

As part of the National Gallery of Modern Art - Mumbai's annual 
exhibition, "Ideas and Images" (September 10th to October 19th 2003) 
PUKAR has organized a screening of  several documentary films on 
Mumbai.

Today's screening (September 25th) is of the award winning film,

NARAYAN GANGARAM SURVE

This eponymous film aims at depicting the life and poetry of a famous 
Marathi poet, Narayan Gangaram Surve. Surve was a foundling. He 
became an outstanding poet of Marathi. Our film deals with some 
landmark events of his life and a number of his outstanding 
poems.Using an artful play between real interviews and an actor 
playing the poet, and a backdrop of the working class movement of the 
last 40 years, the film attempts to re-invent the rhythms of Narayan 
Surve's poetry forged out of everyday speech of the common men and 
women of Bombay. The film tries to make audible its underlying sounds 
and to make visible the textures of his richly peopled world: mill 
sirens, machine and vehicle sounds, footsteps ringing on deserted 
pavements, hands and feet cracked with toil, faces with deep lines of 
suffering, sounds of giant cranes in the harbour, waves crashing, 
walls with their peeling colours, objects worn out with sweat and 
use, human beings and machines interlocked with each other.

Narayan Gangaram Surve has won a National Award - the Golden Lotus 
for Best Film, 2003.

Directed by - Arun Khopkar

Arun Khopkar is a filmmaker working in Bombay, whose films have been 
screened at various festivals and won several awards. His films 
include Figures of Thought, Colours of Absence,Sanchari, Rasikpriya 
and Lokpriya.

Venue: The NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda, South Mumbai.
Time: 6:00 p.m.
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
Mumbai.

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